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HISTORY 



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OXFORD. 



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PART FIRST, 

CHURCH RECORDS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS. ETC. 



BY W. C. SHARPE, 

AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF SEYMOUR, Etc. 



ed according to act of Congress, in the year 1885, by W. C. Sharpe, in the office of the 
Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



RECORD PRINT, SEYMOUR, CONN. 

1885. 



PREFACE TO PART FIRST. 



Two or three memories may sometimes reach back a hundred and fifty 
or two hundred years, but the aged sires and matrons whose fathers told them 
what their grandsires saw and did a century and a half ago are fast passing 
away. Even the old records, brown and brittle with age, are crumbling and 
disappearing. Three of the closely written leaves of the oldest volume of 
Oxford records, which evidently gave the earliest vital statistics of the 
parish, are gone, while others are so worn as not to be fully decipherable. 
Old documents are destroyed by accident or scattered far and wide by the 
migration of families. In view of this, and to bring these matters into 
convenient form for reference and preservation, the following pages have 
been compiled. 

The original parish records are in two volumes, one of which was kept 
by the pastor and contained a record of such matters as came under his 
direction, and the other by the clerk of the society, containing a record of 
the society meetings and of such business as the laws of the colony reserved 
to laymen. 

Many names were found of which it is difficult to determine the exact 
spelling, and others in which the spelling is evidently incorrect. Kno^ving 
that the value of such records depends upon their reliability, great care has 
been taken to make a correct copy.' 

The figures on the right of pages 23 to 27 and 34 to 53 are in the 
original record and were evidently intended to show at a glance the number 
of the event recorded. 

The incompleteness of the town record of deaths, pages 76 to 70, is to 
be regretted, yet even as it is they will be of great value. It will be seen 
that on these pages the children are mostly omitted, the registrar evidently 
entertaining the strange idea that it was unnecessary to record the deaths of 
the little ones. 

Those who may be able are requested to furnish any information, old 
papers, etc., which may aid in making the remainder of the work more 
complete and interesting. 



HISTORY OF OXFORD. 

THE ECCLESIASTICAL SOCIETY. 

The town of Oxford comprises an area in the honored Commonwealth of 
Connecticut which has had its full share in the development of those forms of 
government which secure so much of civil and religious liberty. Its sons and 
daughters faithfully toiled to lay the foundations of present prosperity and 
sacrificed much that justice and freedom should triumph. 

iNTot incorporated as a town until 1798, yet clothed with the powers of an 
independent parish in 1741, it is to the parish records we must look for most 
of the details of more than half a century, and in the minutia of the aifairs of 
the ecclesiastical society so carefully preserved, we find a key to many incidents 
of pioneer life. 

The history of a church is, to a great extent, the history of the people of 
the people of the parish, and in many cases, is about the only available record 
which gives any details of the earlier inhabitants, whose descendants have 
left their impress on the society and institutions of the country from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific, and fi'om British America to the Gulf of Mexico. 

The first petition for the setting apart of Oxford as a separate parish was 
made to the General Assembly in May, 1740, and on the 7th of May, 1741, the 
petition was granted in the following words : 

"Whereas upon the memorial of Timothy Worster, John Twitchel and 
John Towner, &c., dwelling in the and northwest part of the township of 
Derby, Isaac Trowbridge, John Weed, Jonas Weed, Joseph Weed, Thomas 
and Joseph Osborn, dwelling in the southwest part of Waterbury woods, in 
the old society in said Waterbury, and Isaac Knowles, Joseph Towner, 
Eliphalet Bristol, John Tift, and Aaron Bristol, dwelling in the southeast 
part of the township of W^oodberry woods in the parish of Southberry, mov- 
ing to the General Assembly holden at Hartford, May, anno Dom. 1740, 
that they might become one entire, ecclesiastical society, and praying for a 
committee, &c.-, the said General Assembly did appoint a committee, who 
accordingly making their report to the General Assembly at New Haven in 
October last, and the same not being accepted ; and the said General Assem- 
bly in October last appointing another committee, Colo. Benjamin Hall, Capt. 
Isaac Dickerman and Capt. John Fowler, to view and report, &c.: And 
whereas the said last mentioned committee have to this Assembly made their 



G IlISTOKY OF OXFORD. 

report that according to the direction of said Assembly they have repaired to 
the abovesaid places, &c., and find and are of opinion, that it is necessary and 
best that the said inhabitants be made a distinct, separate ecclesiastical society, 
and that their bounds and limits be as followeth : Beginning at the mouth of 
the four mile brook in Derby bounds, where the brook emptieth itself into 
the great river, and to run as said brook runneth by said brook unto the bridge 
that is between the dwelling houses of Abel Gun and John Holbrook; and 
from said bridge by the highway that runneth between the land commonly 
called the Camp's Mortgage and the land called Quakers Farm Purchase, 
unto the river called the Little river; and thence as the Little river runneth to 
Naugatuck river; and thence northerly, by said Naugatuck river, that 
being the east bounds of said society, imtil it comes to the dividing 
line between the towns of Derby and Waterbury ; thence turning westerly 
and running as the line runneth between the towns of Derby and Water- 
bury, as aforesaid, until it comes to the southeasterly boundary of Thomas 
and Joseph Osborn's Farm in the bounds of Derby ; and from thence to run 
northerly to the northeast corner boundary of Jos. Weed's farm in Waterbury 
town bounds ; and from thence a northwesterly line to the northeast corner 
boundary of Isaac Trowbridge's farm, in said Waterbury town bounds : and 
from thence to run westerly, in the line of said Trowbridge's farm, about sixty 
rods, to Woodberry town line ; and thence to the northwest corner of Isaac 
Knowles' farm in the township of Woodberry; and from the northwest cor- 
ner of said Knowles' farm a west line to the eight mile brook, in the bounds 
of Woodberry; and then by the said brook, until it comes to the dividing line 
between the towns of Woodberry and Derby; and thence to run westerly in 
the line that divideth between the said towns of Woodberry and Derby, 
unto the great river ; thence by the river southerly to the first mentioned 
boundary, the mouth of four mile brook ; as by said report on file, dated 
May the 7th, anno Dom. 1741." 

'■'■It is thereupon resolved by this Assembly, That the above said memori- 
alists, inhabitants of Derby, Waterberry and Woodberry, situate and living 
within the bounds and limits above described, be and become together one 
entire, separate aad distinct ecclesiatical society or parish, subsisting and 
known by the name of the parish of Oxford, and endowed with all powers 
and privileges wherewith other parishes within this government are by law 
endowed." 

The first meeting of the society was held June 30, 1741. The following 
is an exact copy of the record : 

Att a meetting of the Parrish or society of oxford, in the Colony of Con 
necticut, on the thirtieth Day of June, 1741, being Lawfully warned and held 
att the house of ""'Samuel Twitchels. Isaac Trowbridge, of said Parrish, by 
a major vote was chosen Clerk of the same, and the oath by Law provided for 
a society Clerk was to him administered in said meeting pr Sam" Bassit, 
Esquir, Justice of peace. 



THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 7 

Att said meeting "•'Isaac Knowles by a major vote was chosen modderator 
for said meeting. 

Voted and Past in said meeting that ™''Caleb Perry, "''Ebenezer Riggs, 
"'•■John Luram to be a committee for said society to take care of the pruden- 
tials of s"^ society. 

Voted and past in said meeting to bier a minister for this Present year. 

Voted and Past in said meeting that "''John Towner, ""abial Fairchield 
and ™''Sam" Twitchel to be a minister committee for this Present year, and 
to hier a minister upon probation. 

Voted and Past in said meetting that thear shall be a rate made of five 
pence upon the pound upon the list in the year 1740, in order to Defray the 
Charges of hiering '"'"Birdsey. this vote the inhabitants on Rock house 
hill are exempted from paying and Charges there of. 

Voted and past in said meeting that ""Ephraim Washband shall be a 
Collector and Treasurer and to collect and gather s^^ five peney Rate by the 
first day of September next Ensuing. 

Voted and Past in said meeting that '"'John Towner and m' Sam^^ 
Wostor shall be in with the first committee in order to take care of the pru- 
dentials of said society. 

test pr me, 
ISAAC TROWBRIDGE. 
Society Clerk. 

At a society meeting held Oct. 6th, 1741, it was voted to build a 
meeting house and to ask the General Assembly at their next session to 
appoint a commission to decide where the meeting house should be built. 
Mr. Ebenezer Riggs was appointed agent for the society to present the matter 
to the General Assembly. The following is the order of the Assembly : 

"Upon the report of Capt. Isaac Dickerman, Mr. James Talmadge and 
Mr. John Hitchcock, appomted by this Assembly to affix the place for 
the inhabitants of the parish of Oxford to build their meeting house upon, 
&c., the said committee having viewed their circumstances, and have set 
down a stake and laid stones to the same, at the south end of the hill, com- 
monly called Jack's Hill, and near the highway that runs on the east side 
the Little river, on land belonging to Ephraim Wasbbourn, which said place 
the said committee report to be the most convenient place for the said in- 
habitants to build a meeting house upon ; Resolved by this Assembly, that 
the abovesaid place be the place for the said inhabitants to build their meeting 
house upon ; and the said inhabitants are hereby ordered to build a meeting 
house at the said place accordingly." 

At the meeting of Oct. Oth, which was held at the house of John 
Twitchel, John Chatfield moderator, it was voted "to disannul that vote that 
was past to hier a minister upon probation," and to lay a tax of one penny on 
the pound to defray the charges of a court committee. Sergeant Timothy 
Wooster and Mr. James Wheeler were appointed a committee to hire a min- 
ister for that year. It was also voted that the places to post notices of society 
meetings should be at the houses of John Lum, Jonathan Griffin, Joseph 
Lewis, Isaac Knowles, Joseph Davis and Joseph Wood, and that the meet- 
ings on the Sabbath be held at the house of Samuel Twitchell "till y^ year be 
ended." 



HISTORY or OXFOIID. 



ADMISSIONS TO CHURCH FELLOWSHIP. 



1764:. 

Mary Hawkins, wife of Zacliariah Haw- 
kins, June 3. 
Hannah Guun, Aug;. 5. 
Joseph Osborn and his wife Rebecca, 

Sept. 6. 
Abijah Hide, by letter from church at 

Ripton, Oct. 7. 
Samuel Chatfleld, Jr., and his wife 

Joanna, Dec. 3. 

1765. 
Zerviah Chatfield, Lewis Wheler and 

Rachel Towner, Feb. 3. 
Deborah, wife of Eleazer Wooster, and 

Esther, wife David Woodruff, June 2. 
"Anna, my spouse" (written by Rev. 

David Bronson), and David Wood- 
ruff, Aug. 4. 
Mamie Ward, Sept. 1. 
Edward Riggs and Joel Northrop, Oct. 3. 
Zerviah, wife of Oliver Chatfield, Oct. 6. 

1766. 
Daniel Osborn, Jr., and wife Mary, 

Jan. 26. 
Oliver Chatfield, April 6. 
Sarah, wife of Arthur Wooster, Apr. 6, 

by letter from the church at Newtown. 
Lois, wife of Nathan Fairchild, Apr. 26. 
John Holbrook and Eunice, his wife, 

Aug. 24. 

1767. 
Caleb Caudee, Jr., and Anna, his wife. 

Mar. 8. 
Zerviah, wife of Abiah Fairchild, Aug. 2. 
David Graves and his wife Hannah, 

Oct. 4, by letter from Norfolk. 
1768. 
Eunice Riggs and Eunice Peck, Apr. 3. 
Lieut. Daniel Chatfield and Prudence, 

his wife, Apr. 24. 
Joanna, wife of Daniel Wilniot, Aug. 7, 

by letter from Woodbury. 
1769. 
JeremialiJohnson audHannaJi, his wife, 
Gershom Lake, Feb. 12. [Jan 15. 

Abigail Lyman, June 11. 
Joseph Russel and Elizabotli, his wife, 

July 30. 
Eleazer Bartholewmy and Abigail, his 

wife, Oct. 1. 



1770. 

Merriara Washband, Mar. 27. 

Naomi, wife of Ensign John Bassett, 

Apr. 1. 
Thankful, wife of Ebenzer Johnson, 

June 3. 
Sarah, wife of Samuel Tucker, June 3. 
Jeremiah Riggs and Anna, his wife, 

July 1. 
Jabez Riggs and Sarah, his wife, July 8. 

Abraham Beecher, 2. 

177S. 
Deborah, wife of David Fabrick, Apr. 5. 
Isaac Trowbridge and Judith, his wife, 

July 26. 

Noah Russell Lyman and Comfort, his 

wife. Mar. 21, 1773. 
Capt. Ebenezer Clark of West Haven, 

Apr. 11, 1773. 
Josiah Perry, Tabitha Perry and Anna 

Hawkins, Oct. 10, 1773. 
Lieut. John Bassit, Dec. 5, 1773. 
Isaac Beecher, Apr. 9, 1774. 
Desire, wife of Abraham Beecher, July 

24, 1774. 
Elizabeth, wife of John Trumbull, Dec. 

11, 1774. 
Hannah, wife of Isaac Beecher, Feb. 5, 

1775. 
Joseph Towner, Jr., and Mary, his wife, 

May 12, 1776. 
Dinah, wife of Lieut. John Griffin, frons 

N. Cheshire, Apr. 6, 1777. 
Joseph Riggs and Anne, his wife, May 

11, 1777. 
Mable, wife of Samuel Cande, April 5, 

1778. 
Eunice, wife of Justus Cande, March 

19, 17—. 
Dr. Osee Dutton, June 24, 1781. 
John Towner and Racliel Iiis wife, Aug. 

26, 1781. 
Elizabetii Whitmore, Oct. 28, 1781. 
Lois, wife of Reuben Perkins, Dec. 

30, 1781. 
Sarah Wooster, July, 14, 1782. 
Abial Fairchild and wife, by letter from 

Watevbury, Apr. 27, 1783." 



THE CONGREGATIONAL CHUBCH: 



1784- 
April 18'^ Joseph Osborn, Jr., & Sar.ah 

his wife, receiv'' to special ordinauces. 
April 18*, Levi Trowbridge & Hannah 

his wife, receiv^ to special ordinauces. 
May 16"', Nehemiah Cande & Content 

his wife, receiv^ to communion. 
June 30"', Asenath, wife to Amos Hine, c. 
June 27"', Elizabeth, wife to Dr. Osee 

Button, receiv'^ to communion. 
1785. 
April 24"', Ethiel Perkins, receiv^ &c. 
Ocf 18"', Abigail Johnson. 

1786. 
April 30"', Gael Bristol, Jn--. 

10"', Abijah Hide, Jn^ 

1787. 
, Mary, wife of Jesse Scoot, by 

letter from Ripton. 
, M'^^ Anna Brownson, consort to 

Rev<^ D. Brownson. 

, George Clark & Lydia, Iiis wife. 

, wife of Maho(?) Riggs. 

1788- 
Jan' G"', Betty, wife to Amos Fox. 
Sepl^ 25t^ LukeBunell & Sarah his wife 
Ocf^l'i"', Elizabeth, wife of Dan" Perkins. 

1796- 
May 3'', Mable, wife to James Perry. 
June 37"', Olive Perry. 
July 4"', Charles Lewis & Lois his wife. 
Oct. 34"', Eunice, wife to Benj"' Bradley. 

1791- 
May l^S Rebekah, wife to Ephraim Hin- 

man. 
May 1^*, Elijah Harger, by a letter from 

the Pastor & C"" of Gunville. 
Sepf 4th, Sarah, wife to Phiueas John- 
son, by a letter from the Pastor & C''' 

at Salem. 

179S. 

Jan'" 1^, Isaac Chatiield & Sarah his wife. 

May 6t^ John Botsford & Rachel his 
wife, by a letter from the first church 
in Derby. 

Sep*' 23'^ Sam" Andrew Buckingham & 
Esther his wife. 

1793- 

Jan' 6"', Bennitt Rice & wife, received 
to Ordinances and Communion by a 
letter from the Pastor of the C''' Che- 
shire. 

June 2'^, Keziah, wife to John Bassit, J"^. 

July 7th. Capt. Jeremiah Riggs and his 
wife Anne, by a letter from the Pastor 
& Chh South . 



Sept. 8, Thomas Leavenworth, by a let- 
ter from the pastor of the first Chh in 
Waterbury. 

1794- 

July 6, Ruth, wife to Nehemiah Durand . 

1795. 

Mar. 1"*, Hannah, wife of Tho^ Clark, 
April 5, Ebenezer Buckingham, Jn' 

Esq"^ & Olive his wife. 
August 23'', Ebenezer Fairchild & 

Eunice his wife. 

1796. 
May 1"', Beck, wife to Roger Negro. 

1798. 

Sepf 16lh, Zebulon Lines & Lois his 

wife. 
Sepf 30, David M-^Cune «fc Sally his wife. 

1799. 

May 36, David Bunnell & Polly his 

wife. 

I8OO, 

May 1^ Voted that Lyda, the wife of 
Daniel Candee, by a letter Recommen- 
datory from the Pastor and church of 
Harwintou be Rec"* a Member of this 
church. 

July 6, Decon James Wheeler & Mary 
his wifeRec'^ to Communion by a let- 
ter Recommendatory from the pastor 
& church in Bethany. 

July 6, Samuel Buckingham & Ruth his 
wife Reed to communion. 

Dec'" 28, Elijah Treat &Esther his wife. 
1801. 

July 5, Lemuel Beardsley & Mary his 
wife. 

Sept' 6, Eunice Hinman. 
I802. 

July 1st, Anne Bassitt. 

July 4"', The wife of Enoch Perkins * 
by a letter from the Pastor & C"'' of 
Watertown. 

Nov 4*^ Joseph Lines, 
Treat Loveland & Betty his wife, 
Timothy Wheeler & Hannah liis wife, 
Isaac Riggs & Sarah his Wife, 
Sheldon Candee, 
Timothy Candee, 
Hannah, Wife to Clark Loveland, 
Chloe, Wife to Philo Thomas, 
George Steel & Esther his wife. 
18OS. 

March 3'', Ruth, Wife to Joseph Lines 
by letter from Pastor of Chh in Beth- 
any. 



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THE CONGREGATIONAL CHUBCH. 



April 28, Voted that Phebe, Wife of 
Nathan Stiles, be recv^' as a Member 
of this Chh bj' Virtue of her being a 
Member of a Chh in Chusetowu. 

June 13, Sam" Buckmgham received to 
Communion. 

June 12, Uri Scoot & Esther his wife 
reeV* to Communion, by a Letter from 
the Chh in Salem. No. 170. 

Sept. 4, Cap' Abel Wheeler & Eunice 
his wife, recv^* to Communion. 

1804 

June 24, Mehitable Beardsley, (Widow) 
recv<* to Communion bv a letter from 
the Pastor Chh Kipton. 

180S. 

Jan"^ 6, Ruth, Wife to Ensign Le'.vis H. 
Wakle, recv^ to Communion by a let- 
ter from the Pastor in the first Chh in 

Huntington. 

1808- 

August 14*'', Cap*. Ebenezer Riggs & 

William Marris Recvd to Ful eommu- 

niou. 

1809- 

Apriel IG, Samuel Heaton, Widdow 
Sabry Riggs, & Isaiah Caude & Ma- 
lissa his wife, recvd to full Commu- 
nion 

ISIO. 

Charity, the wife of Samuel Riggs, recvd 
to full communion with this church. 

The wife of Joseph Riggs recvd to full 
communion with this church. 
1811. 

Jany 6, Dr. Noah Stone recvd to com- 
munion with this church by reccom- 
menddatiou from 2'^ church in Guil- 
ford. 

Rosalind, consort of D'". N. Stone, to 
Communion with this church by rec- 
ommendation from the first church 
in Lyme. 

May 5, M. John Fairchild tfe Mary his wife 
received to full communion. 

July 7, Mrs. Lucy A. Cande, the wife of 
Timothy Caude, received to commu- 
nion with this chh by reccommeuda- 
tion from the chh in Coventry, N. 
York. 

Nov. 3, The wife of Data Mun recvd 
into church. 
Eunice Scott received into the church. 
Wife of Gideon Tucker recvd to full 
communion. 



1813. 
May, Samuel Tucker cV Wife received 
to full communion. 

1814. 
June, Gideon Perry received to full com- 
munion. 

o 

Communicants received by y** Rev** 
Mr. Lyman, taken off from his Files. 

Abiel Fairchild and his wife received 
to comuuiou from y" Pastor and C''' of 
Christ in Stratford bairiug Date Oct"^ 
28"S 1745. 

Jonas Weed and his Wife Received to 
Comunion from y'' Pastor and C''' of 
Christ in Northbury, bairiug Date Sept' 
25*, 1745. 

Samuel Wooster and his Wife, and 
Thomas Ufiford and his Wife, received 
to Communion from y" Pastor and C''' 
of Christ in Southbury hairing date Dec. 
20, 1745. 

Alice Weed, y^ Wiffe ©f John Weed, 
received to Communion from y*^ Pastor 
d Qhii Qf Christ in West Haven, hairing 
Date A. D. 1745. 

Isaac Trowbridge and Jouatlian Grif- 
fin, received to Communion from y" 
Pastor and Ch'' of Christ in Ripton, hair- 
ing Date Oct'- 27"', 1745, 

Joseph Smith and Elizabeth his Wife, 
Received to Comunion from y Pastor 
and Ch'' of Christ in Darby, hairing Date 
Jan' 9, 1745-6. 

Hannah y'^ Wife of Timothy Russell 
received to Comunion from y Pastor 
and Ch'' of Christ in Newtown, hairing 
Date March 2^, 1763. 

Joseph Orsbou and Esther liis Wife, 
Received to Comunion from y Pastor 
& Ch'' of Christ in west Haven, hairing 
Date Oct^ 29'", 1745. 

Sarah, Wife of JohnDurand, Received 
to Comunion from y" Pastor and Ch'' of 
Christ in Darby, hairing Date Dec'' 5, 
1745. 

Samuel Chatfield and Auue his Wife, 
Received to Comunion from y Pastor 
and Ch'' of Christ in Reading, hairing 
Date Oct' 20'", 1745. 

Mary y wife of Joseph Davis Received 
to Communion, from y"^ Pastor and Ch'' 
of Christ in Darby, bairiug Date Jan"^ 
31, 1745-G. 



THE CONGREGATIONAL CMUBCH. 



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Samuel Wbeler Received to Coniniu- 
nron from j° Pastor and Ch'' of Christ 
in Darby, bairing Date Dec' 4''', 1745. 

Joseph Toraliuson Received to Com- 
munion, from y'* Pastor and Ch'' of 
Christ in Darby, bairing Date Oct^ 29«>, 
1745. 

N. B.— The Above were Received to 
Special Ordinances by Letters Recom- 
mendatory from y*^ Pastors and Chh^ 
specifyed, as taken from y*^ Files. 

A True Record. Test. 

David Brownson, Pastor. 

Jan'- 16, 1757. Thomas Clark & Su- 
sannah his Wife admitted to full Com- 
munion. 

Feb"" 29, 1756. David Johnson and 
Esther his Wife was admitted to full 
Communion. 

March 25, 1750. Jabez Thompson and 
Sarah his Wife admitted to full Com- 
munion. 

June 30, 1751. Daniel Hawkins was 
admitted to full Communion. 

Dec 12, 1755. Lidy, Wife of Zadock 
Hawkins admitted to full Communion. 

March 18; 1759. John Riggs Juu'^ and 
his Wife Abigail admitted to full Com- 
munion- 
March 4, 1750. Rachel, y« Wife of 
Richard Smith, admitted to full Com- 
mnnion. 

April 5, 1753. Benjamin Buunel Jun"^ 
& Ruth his Wife admitted to full Com- 
munion. 

Feb"- 23, 1752. Elisha Lewis admitted 
to full Communion. 

Dec 25, 1757. Sam" Woodruff & Ann 
his Wife admitted to full Communion. 

July 21, 1754. Benjamin P"'ox, and Es- 
ther his Wife admitted to full Commu- 
nion, in this Church. 

March 23, 1751. Coe Hinman was ad- 
mitted into full Comuniou. 

March 31, 1751. Doro, Negro, admit- 
ted to full Communion. 

July 26, 1761. Ebenezer Buckingham 
& his Wife admitted to full Comunion. 

Jan'' 15, 1758. Abiel Fairchild Jn' & 
his Wife admitted to full Communion. 

Samuel Hull received to Communion 
from y'' Pastor «fc Chh of C. in South- 
bury. ^ 



Annah Wife to Moses Sperry Received 
to Communion from y'^ Pastor & Chh of 
C. in Amity, bairing Date, Ocf 9th^ 
1754. 

Isaac Knowls & Martha his Wife, 
Eliphalet Bristol, and Elizabeth the 
Wife of Cornelius Hull, and Peter, Ne- 
gro Servant to s'' Knowles, Received to 
Communion from y^ Pastor & Chh of C 
in Southbury, bairing Date Nov"^ 27th, 
1745. 

Joseph Wade Received to Communion 
from y*^ Pastor & Chh of C. in Water- 
bury, bairing date Jan'' 28th, 1746. 

Mary Smith Received to Communion 
from y^ Pastor & Chh of C. in Wood- 
bury bairing Date Sept'' 4th, 1761. 

Abigail y*^ Wife of Samuel Wheler re- 
ceived to Communion from the Pastor 
& Chh of Christ in Ripton bairing date 
Aug^t 20, 1746. 

Ruth Wife and Rachel Daughter to 
Isaac Trowbridge received to Commu- 
nion from y" Pastor, & Chh of Christ in 
Ripton bairing Date Jan' 20th, 1746. 

Abigail y*^ Wife of Samuel Hitchcock, 
received to Communion from the Pastor 
& Chh of Christ in West-Haven, bair- 
ing Date Dec 23, 1760. 

Joseph Lewis received to Communion 
from y'= Pastor & Chh of Christ in 
Waterbury, bairmg Date Ocf^ 27th, 
1745. 

Silence y'' Wife of John Lumm, Eliza- 
beth y'' Wife, and Elizabeth ye Daugh- 
ter of John Chatfield, Hannah y" Wife 
of John Riggs, Sarah y'^ Wife of James 
Wheler, Mary y" Wife of Timothy Rus- 
sel, Abigail, Sibillia, and Mary Russels, 
all received to Communion fromy" Pas- 
tor and Chh of Christ in Darby, bairing 
Date Jan^ 7th, 1746. 

Sarah y'= Wife of John Towner re- 
ceived to Communion from y° Pastor & 
Chh of Christ in Daubury bairing Date, 
May 28th, 1746. 

Caleb Cande and his Wife Lois re- 
ceived to Communion from y*" Pastor 
and Church of Christ in West-Haven. 

Deacon Jeremiah Peck and his Wife 
received to Communion from y"^ Pastor 
and Chh of Christ in Northbury, bairing 
date April 27th, .1747. 



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OXFORD HISTORY. 



Abigail y^ Wife ox Aaron Sperry re- 
ceived to Comtuuuion from y*^ Pastor 
and Chh of Christ in Amity, bairing 
Date NovJ 13tb, 1758. 

Eicbard Burton admitted to Occasion- 
al Communion from y<= Pastor & Cbb of 
Christ in Southbury bairing Date May 
31^ 1756. 

Jean, y'' Wife of John Towner SeuS 
Joseph Towner, and John Towner 
Jn"", Mary Towner, and Elizabeth Baker, 
received to Communion from y Pastor 
and Chh of Christ in Southbury, bairing 
Date Dec' 30th, 1745. 

Arther Wooster, and Sarah y^ Wife of 
Ebecezer Basset received to Communion 
from y'= Pastor and Chh of Christ in 
Darby, bairing Date Jan'" 8th, 1746. 

Thomas Kuowls and his Wife Ee- 
ceived to Communion from y" Pastor 
and Chh of Christ in Southbury, bairing 
Date Ocf 12th, 1761. , 

Elizabeth y*^ Wife of Joseph Twitchel 
received to Communion from y« Pastor 
and Ch'' of Christ in Darby bairing 
Date Jan'- 27th, 1746. 

Sarah Tomlinson Eeceived to Com- 
munion from y*" Pastor and Ch'' of Christ 
in Newtown, bairing Date March 5, 1746. 

Abner Johnson and Abigail his Wife 
received to Communion from y" Pastor 
and C"^ of Christ in Darby, Dated 1758. 

Daniel Orsborn and Obedience his 
wife received to Communion from y® 
Pastor and Ch'' of Christ in West Haven, 
bairing Date June 5th 1758. 

Maiy y*^ wife of Phineas Johnson re- 
ceived to Communion from y*^^ Pastor 
& Ch'' of Christ in Amity, bairing Date 
Septi- 26, 1756. . 

Arab Ward and his wife received to 
Communion from y*^ Pastor and Ch'' of 
Christ in Eipton, bairing Date June 3d, 
1756. 

Mehitable, wife of Jonathan Griffin 
received to Communion from y<^ Pastor 
and Ch'' of Christ in West Haven, bair- 
ing Date, Jan> 22^, 1746. 

Obedience, ye wife of John Chatfield, 
received to Communion from y*' Ch'' of 
Christ in West-Haven, bairing Date 
July 17"', 1753. 

The above a true coppy as taken from 
ye Files of y^ Eev' M' Lyman. 

Test. David Brownson, Pastor. 



An account of those y* owned y*^ Cove 
naut Taken from y'' Files of y'' Eev<* M' 
Lyman. 

April 6, 1753, Abraham Bassit owned 
his Covenant. 

Nov" 12, 1752, James Pangboru and 
Prudence his Wife owned y^ Covenant. 

FeV 17, 1754, Charles Griffin owned 
his Covenant. 

Aug' 19, 1750, Sam" Hitchcock and 
Ann his Wife owned y*^ Covenant. 

Febi' 19, 1758-9, Pero Negro owned his 
Covenant. 

June 2, 1755, Oliver Chatfield and Zer- 
viah his Wife owned y^ Covenant. 

Aug^t 31, 1760, Joshua Perry & Masy 
his Wife owned y*^ Covenant. 

Oct^- 5, 1760, Jabez Harger & his Wife 
owned y*^ Covenant. 

June 28, 1761, Yelverton Perry and 
his wife owned y*^ Covenant. 

An account of those y' owned y*^ Cov- 
enant. Pi D. Brownson, Pastor. 

1767'- 
Nov'' 15th, Hannah Wooster owned her 

•Covenant. 

lers. 

April 3'', Noah Candee and Martha his 

Wife owned y® Covenant. 
irea. 
Febi 19th, Anne, wife of Eichard Smith 

owned her Covenant. 
March 5"', Gideon Tucker and Eunice 

his Wife owned y'' Covenant. 
Sept^ 3d, Eobart Wheler and Euth his 

Wife owned y*" Covenant. 
Sept^' 3'^, Dan" Tucker and Hannah his 

Wife owned y" Cov"'. 
Dec'' 24*", David Pierson & Lois his wife 

Eeceived by letter from Derby. 
ITVO. 
July 1^', John Duraud Jn^' & Desire his 

wife owned y® Covenant. 
17"ri- 
Aug^* 1^*, Jared Buckingham Eeceived 

by Letter from Derby. 
Aug^' 1=', John Eiggs & Elizabeth his 

wife Eeceived by Letter from Derby. 
Aug^*20ti', Joseph Washband «& Anna 

his Wife owned y'' Covenant. 
Sepf^^ 8"', Ebenezar Eiggs Jn'' & Anna 

his Wife owned y^ Covenant. 



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13 



177S- 
FeV 2'^, Gideon Tutle & Mary liis wife 

Received by Letter from Southbury. 
July 36"', Sam" Tucker Received by a 

Letter from Derby. 
Nov 16"% Eleazar Sperry & Dorcass his 

Wife owned y^ Covenant. 
17'73. 
Aug'* 1^*, Jeremiah Durand & Hannah 

his Wife owned y^ Covenant. 
Aug^* 15"', Gideon Perry & Hannah his 

wife owned y*^ Covenant. 
Septi26"', Joseph Wooster & Hannah 

his Wife owned y*' Covenant. 
Oct!' 3^ Elizabeth, Wife to John Trum- 
bull, owned her Covenant. 

1774. 

Feb'' 6"', Shores Uflford and Elizabeth 
his Wife owned y" Covenant. 

April 24"', Gideon Caudee owned his 
Covenant, 

Ocf 2"^, David Cande & his wife Dinah 
owned y*' Covenant. 

177S. 

March 5"', John Towner & Rachel his 

Wife owned y^ Covenant. 
Aug^* 20, Nathan French & Lucy his 

Wife owned y'' Covenant. 

1776. 

Dec'' 8th, Isaac Tomlinsou & Mary his 
Wife owned y*' Covenant. 

1777. 

Sepf 7*'', Desire, Negro Wench, owned 
her Covenant. 

1778. 

April 5"', Samuel Cande owned his Cov- 
enant. 
June 14"', John Chatfield Jn^ & Mary 

his Wife owned y'' Covenant. 
Dec 20"', John Wilcocksou & Ann his 

wife owned y*' Covenant. 

1770. 

June 6"', Anne Wife to John Goodsell 

owned her Covenant. 

1780. 

March 19*1^, Jared Osborn & Freelove 

Ame his wife owned y'' covenant. 
March 19'^, Justus Cande owned his 

covenant. 
April 2'^, Isaac Chatfield & Sarah his 

wife owued y*? covenant. 
July 16, James Riggs & Sarah his wife 

own'^ y'' covenant. 
July 16, Joseph Bassit & Molly his wife 

own*^ y*" covenant. 



1781. 



April 1, Eli Chatfield & Lois his Wife 
own'' y^ covenant. 

1787. 
April 8, Timothy Johnson, Jn"^ Renew' 

his covenant. 
April 22, Lieut. Naboth Osborn & Susie 

his Wife renewed their covenant. 
April 22, Samuel Buckingham & Ruth his 
Wife renewed their covenant. 
July 15, Sam" Tucker, Ju', & Silence his 

Wife renew'^ their covenant. 
Sepf^ 30, Sarah, wife of Jer'^ Mather 
Kelly, renew'' her covenant. 
1788. 
July 20, Isaac Brizcho & Mary his wife 
renewed their covenant. 
Job Cande & Sarah his wife Renew'' 
their covenant. 

1790. 
June 20, Abel Waters & Ruth his Wife 

renew'' their covenant. 
July 25, Hezekiah Hine & Hannah his 

Wife renew'' their covenant. 
July 25, David Smith, Ju', & Abilena his 

Wife renew'' their covenant. 
August 15, Truman Stodard & Sarah his 

■wife renew'' their covenant. 
Dec^ 5, Roger Perkins & Betsey his Wife 
renewed their covenant. 
1791. 
April 10, Amos Fox and Jemima his 

Wife renewed their covenant. 
June 5*, Moses Cande & Sarah his Wife 

renew'^ their Covenant. 
July S\ Medad Candee & Betty his 

Wife renew"^ their Covenant. 
August 7"', Nehemiah Durand & Ruth 

his Wife Renew'' their Covenant. 
Sept'- 18"', Truman Bristol & Polly his 

Wife renewed their Covenant. 

Sept^ 18, John Buckingham & Lucy his 

Wife renew'' their Covenant. 96 

179?- 

April 23'', William Lewis Jn^ & Sarah 

his wife renewed their Covenant. 
April 22'', Nath" Buckingham Jn^' & 
Silena his wife renewed y" Covenant. 
May 6*^, Lucy Tucker Renewed her 

Covenant. 
May 13"', Daniel Fox & Elizabeth his 

Wife Renew'' their Covenant. 
NoV^ 4"', Joel Perry & Betty his Wife 
renewed their Covenant. 105 



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OXFORD HISTORY. 



1793. 
Jani" 27'^, Lewis Blackmau renewed his 

CovenaDt. 
May 12"', Molly Bristoll renewed her 

Covenant. 
June 2<', Pbilo R. Bristol & Nabby bis 

Wife Renewed their Covenant. 
1794. 
Aug. 24*'S Samuel Riggs and Charry his 

wife renewed their Covenant. 
Aug. 24, Philo Beecher & Mary his Wife 

renewed their Covenant. 
Sept^' 21^', John Riggs S^^ & Mary his 

Wife Renewed their Covenant. 
Sept. 21, W™ Morriss & Elizabeth his 

wife Renewed their Covenant. 
Sepf 23"i, Daniel Smith & Lucy his 

wife Renewed their Covenant. 
Sepf^^ 28^11, Daniel Riggs Renewed his 

Covenant. 120 

1796- 

Jani' 17"', Enoch Bristoll & and Sarah 

Wife renewed their Covenant. 
Dec^- 11"', Capt. Asahel Hide &l Mary 

Dorman Leavenworth [his wife 

Chester Smith & Kezia his wife 

Philemon Hiuman & Polly his Wife 
Renewed their Covenant. 

1797- 

Oct' 15, Walker Wilmot & MilleCent 
renewed their Covenant. 
Ethiel Louusbury & Betsey his wife 

renewed their Covnt. 
Caleb Tomliuson & Nabby his wife 
wife renewed their Covent. 
Nov"" 26, Joseph Perkins & Sarah his 
wife renewed their covn*. 

1798. 
May 27*, Cyrus Cande & Rebekah his 

Wife Renew* their Covenant. 
Sept"' 9, Lemuel Beardsey & Mercy his 
wife Renewed their Covenant. 
1799- 
October 13, Miles Loveland & Anne his 
wife Renewed their Covenant. 

1800. 

Sepf" 21, Joseph Riggs & Lyddia his 
wife renewed their Covenant. 

Sept""' 21, John Fairchild & Mary his 
wife renewed their Covenant. 

Sept"" 21, David Beecher & Polly his wife 
renew* their Covenant. 



REMOVALS. 

April 27*1', 1764, Abigail the wife of 
of Aaron Sperry Dismissed from this 
Chi' & Recommended to the Ch*' at G. 
Barriugton. 

April 3", 1765, Peter Negro Dismissed 
& Reccomended to the C''*' at Amity. 

July 18"', Samuel Chatfield and Joan- 
nah his wife Dismissed from this Church 
& Recomended to the Church at Water- 
bury. 

Dec' l^S Ebenezer Blackmau & Mar- 
gett his wife dismissed from this Church 
& Recomended to the Church at Noble- 
town. 

June 7"', 1767, Lois the wife of Amos 
Camp Jn'^ Dismissed from this Church 
and Recomended to the Church at New 
Milford. 

March 25, 1770. Joel Northrop Dis- 
missed from this Q\\^ & Recomended to 
the Ch*' at Newbury. 

June 5*, 1770, Eleazar Wooster & De- 
borah his Wife Recomended to the 
Church of Christ at Goshen.^ 

June 5*'', 1770, Elizabeth the wife of 
John Smith Recomended to the Church 
of Christ at Goshen. 

Nov' 1770, Eunice Wife to David 
Mansfield Recomended to the Church 
at Northbury. 

May 8'', 1772, David Graves & Hannah 
his wife Recomended to the Ch^' in 
Southbury. 

June 7*'', Samuel Woodruffe and Ann 
his wife Recommended to the Ch^^ in 
Litchfield South Farm. 

July 26"', Reuben Hale Recommended 
to tlie G^"^ at Hartland. 

Jan-^ 17"', 1773, Nathan Fairchild & 
Lois his Wife Recomended to the Ch'' 
at Ripton. 

May 16"', Gershom Lake & Zerviah 
his wife Dismissed from tliis Cliurch & 
Recomended to the Ch*' of Christ where 
God in his Providence may call y"". 

Sept' 5"', John Holbrook aud Eunice 
his Wife Recomended to the Church in 
Southbury. 

1774, May 30"', Jeremiali Riggs and 
Anne his wife, recomended to the 
Church at Litchfield South Farms. 

1775, Feb'^26"', Thomas Ufford and Ma- 
ble his wife dismissed from this Church 



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15 



and 1 ecoraended to the Church of Christ 
where God in his providence may call 
them. 

1776, Noyi 24"', Isaac Trowbridge & 
Judith his wife dismissed from the 
watch & care of this Ch^ & Recomeuded 
to the C^^ at Litchfield, by vote of the 
Chi^. 

Nov^' 24''^, voted that James Paugborn 
& Prudence his wife be dismissed from 
the Ch^^ & Recomended to the Church 
Sharon for the Privilidge of Baptism of 
of Children. 

1781, June 10*1^, voted, That Cap* Dan- 
iel Cliatfield & Prudence his wife be 
dismissed from this Ch^' and be Recom- 
ended to the Ch^ in Waterbury for the 
Privilidges of Special Ordinances. 

1783, Feb. 10th, Voted that Joseph 
Washbqrn & his wife be recommended 
to the Ch'^ in part of Spencertown for 
the Privilidge of Baptism of their Chil- 
dren. 

1783, July IS*"^, Voted that Lois the wife 
of Reuben Perkins be Recomended to the 
Church at West britaiu for the Privi- 
lidges of Special Ordinances. 

1783, Oct'- 12«', Voted, that Sarah Downs 
be Recomended to the Church at Sauders- 
fiield for the Privilidge of Special Ordi- 
nances. 

Nov 9*1', Voted that Joseph Osboru 
Ju' and Rebekah his wife be Recom- 
ended to the Ch'' at Westbritain for the 
Privilidge of Special Ordinances. 



1786, Sept^- 24*11, Voted that Tabitha 
Wife of M^' Reuben Tucker be recom- 
ended by Letter to the first C''' in Derby 
for the Privilidge of Special Ordinances. 

Novi- l^t,1789. Voted that Mary the 
Wife of Thomas Kuowles be recom- 
ended to Communion in the Church at 
Lottania. 

May 8% 1791, Voted that Gad Bristol! 
Jni' be recomended to Communion in 
the Church at Southbury. 

July 38*11, 1793, Voted that Nehemiah 
Cande and Content his wife (being 
moved from us into the New Settle- 
jnents) be recomended to any Church 
where God in his Providence may call 
them. 

May 3^ 1795, Voted the Eleazar Woos- 
ter and Deborah his wife be recomeuded 
to the Pastor & C^^ of Bethlehem for 
Gospel Ordinances. 

May 1^ 1796, Voted that John Bots- 
ford and Rachel his wife be Recomended 
to the Church in Salisbury. 

Jan' 3\ 1797, Voted that David Cande 
be Recomeuded to the Pastor & C'^ at 
Harrington as having Renew* his Cove- 
nant and of a good moral character. 
Test. D. Brownson, Pastor. 
xMay W^, 1803, Voted that Anne the 
wife of Abner Bradley be Recomended 
to the C^'^ in Woodbridge. 

Test. D. Brownson, Pastor. 



16 



OXFORD HISTOEY. 



Decem"^ 7, 1800, Voted that Samuel 
Buckiugbaiu & Riitlihis wife be Recom- 
meuded to Communion in the Church in 
Middlebury. 

Test, D. Bronson, Pastor. 

March 1, 1801, Voted that Cap* Jere- 
miah Riggs & Aime his Wife be recom- 
mended to Christian Communion Wher- 
ever God in his Providence shall call 
them. 

June 6'!' 1803 Voted that Rachel Wife 
to Gad Bristol be Recomended to the 
C^'^ in Middlebury. 

Test D. Brownson, Pastor. 

Oct. 24"', 1802 Voted that Abigail Wife 
of Noah A. Fulford be Recomended to 
the C^^ of Elsworth, in Sharon. 

Test D. Brownson, Pastor. 

July 24'!', 1803 Voted that Chloe Wife 
of Philo Thomas be Recomended to the 
Chi' at Northfield. 

Test D. Brownson, Pastor. 



Jau-^ V^ 1804 Voted that Cap*. Timothy 
Wheeler, & Hannah his Wife, be Re- 
comended to tlie C^" of Pollit. 

Test D. Brownson, Pastor. 

May 8^1' 1808 Voted that David Buu- 
nel and Polly his wife be recommended 
to the Church at Watertown. 

Test E. Buckingham, Recorder. 

March 3'^ 1811 Voted that Ruth the 
consort of Levi N. Wakele be recom- 
mended to the church in Wolcott. 
Test N. Freeman, Pastor. 

May 1814 Voted that Eunice wife of 

Eldad Scott be recommended to the 

church in Salem. 

N. Freeman. 

June 12 1814 Voted that Joanna widow 
of Jehial Preston be recommended to the 
church in Harrington. 

N. Freeman. 



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17 



BAPTISMS 



Daughter to Nathan French & 

Lucy his 

Daughter to Robart Wholer «fe 

Ruth his Wife. 
n Sou to David Peirson & Lois 



his Wife. 

Daughter to John Riggs, &■ Abi- 



gail his Wife 

Son to Gideon Perry and Hannah 



his Wife. 
Son to Jolin Riggs Jn'' & Elisa- 



beth his Wife. 

1776. 

Feb^' 4"^ Isaac Wildmau Son to Joseph 

Osborn Jn' & Rebecka his Wife. 
Feb^ 4th Jeremiali Sou to Jeremiah John- 
son & Hannah his Wife. 
March 17*^ Cyrus Son to Caleb Cande 

Jni' Sc Anna his Wife. 
March IT*"^ Mable Daughter to Shours 

Ufford & Elizabeth his Wife. 
April 14"' Hannah Daughter to Jeremiah 

Durand & Hannah his Wife. 
April 21"t Polly Daughter to Nathan 

Buckingham & Esther his Wife. 
April '^S'l^ Patty Daughter to David 

Woodruff & Esther his Wife. 
May 5'^' Philemou Son to Abr"' Beecher 

& Desire his Wife. 
May 12*1' Abigail Daughter to Joseph 

Towner Ju'& xMary his Wife. 
May 26«' Charre Daughter to Eben^i 

Riggs Ju'' & Anne his Wife. 
July 26"' John Son to Christopher Smith. 
Aug't 25*^ Lucena «fc Lucinda Daughters 

twins to David Cande & Dinah his 

Wife. 
Sepf 4"! Tabitha Daughter to Joshua 

Perry & Mary his Wife. 



Sept'' 10* Rosannah Daughter to Oba- 

diali Scoot & Wife. 
Sepf lo"' Aunah Daughter to Ethiel 

Perkins, baptised on her Mother's 

Right. 
Sept»- 29'!^ Billy Augustus Son to the 

Rev'' D. Brownsou & Anna his Wife. 
Ocfi' 6"^ Silas Son to Joseph Washband 

& Anne his Wife. 
Dec^' 8"' Silas Son to Isaac Tomliuson & 

Mary his Wife. 

1777. 

Jan'' 5*, Silas Sou to Eleazar Sperry & 

Dorcas his Wife. 
Jau^' 20*'' Mary Wooden Baptized. 
March 9"', Joseph Son to Joseph Woos- 

ter & Hannah his Wife. 
April 6*'' Eunice Dau"^ to Widow Lois 

Riggs. 
April 13*'^ Jabez Son to David Pierson 

& Lois his Wife. 
May 11"', Betsey Daughter to Joseph 

Riggs and Anne his Wife. 
May 18"' Asa Son to Nathan French & 

Lucy his Wife. 
June P* John Son to Abial Fairchild & 

Zerviah his Wife. 
June 8"', Betty Daugliter to John Du- 
rand & Desire his Wife. 
June 15*^ Simeon Sou to John Towner 

& Rachel his Wife. 
June 22'' Zachariah Son to Cap' Zacha- 

riah Hawkins. 
June 22'' Hannah Dau^' to Gideon Perry 

& Hannah his Wife. 
July 6"^ John Son to Justus Bristoll Sc 

Sarali his Wife. 



18 



OXFORD HISTORY. 



Septi" 3d Euuice Daughter to Gad Bris- 

toll & Rachel his wife. 
Sept'- 7"^ Desire Negro Wench Baptized. 
Sept"^ 7^" Mehitable Dau'' to Desire 

Negro Weuch. 
Sept^ 14'" Amos Son to Richard Smith 

& Anne his Wife, baptized on the 

Mother's Right. 
Sept' 14'ii Mary Dau'^' to Elisha Gritfiu 

& Mary his Wife. 
Sepf 14^" Mary Dau'^ to Noah R. Ly- 
man & Comfort his Wife. 
Nov 2** James Sou to James Perry & 

Mable his Wife. 
John (?)Sou to Abijah Hide. 

1778. 

r 4"' CLarry Daughter to Joseph 

Towner Jn^'. 
1- 21^t Abiah Daugliter to Gersham 

Lake & Zervia 

1- 15t>i Chxrinda Dau'^ to Ens" Noah 

Cande & Mar 

— arcli 1'' Eli Son to Abraham Beeciier 

& Desire h 

March 25'" Sally Dau'^' to Sam" Russel 

baptized on 

March 26'" Arnold Sou to Caleb Cande 

& Anna hi 

April 5'" Mable Wife to Samuel Cande 

baptized. 
— ril 5'" Amos Son to Samuel Cande & 

Mable his 

— 11 19'" Isaac Son to Isaac Tomlinsou 

& Mary his Wife. 
1 26'" Joseph Sou to Gideon Tucker 

& Euuice Ids wife. 
y 10'" Daniel Sou to Joseph Wash- 

band & Anna his Wife. 
y 17'" Auna Daugliter to Isaac Bun- 

nel & wife. 
y 24'" James Son to Robert Wheel- 
er & Ruth his Wife. 
e 14'" David Son to Joseph Woos- 

ter & Hannah his Wife. 
14'" John Fredrick Sou to Johu 

Chatfield Ju'' & Mary his Wife. 
— uly 12'" David Son to Isaac Beecher 

& Hannah his Wife. 
Aug. 9'" Anne Dau" to Lieut Eben^"^ 

Riggs Ju'^ & Anne his Wife. 
Sepf 20'" Polly Dau" to David Cande 

and Dinah his Wife. 



Oct* 18'" Polly Dau" to Jeremiah John- 
son & Hannah his Wife. 280 

NoV^ 7'" Joshua Sou to Joshua Perry & 
Marcy his Wife. 

Dec"^ 20'" Josiah Sou to John Wilcock- 
sou & Ann his Wife. 

1779. 

Joseph Sou to David Pierson &. 



Lois his Wife. 
David Sou to Rev<i D. Brownson 



& M"^^ Anne Brownson. 
Benjamin Sou to Sam" Cande & 

Mable his Wife. 285 

Desire Daughter to Pero Negro. 

Daniel Son to Dau" Wilmott & 



Joanna his Wife, baptized on his 
Mother's Right. 

—ay 16'" Nabby Dau" to Capt. John 
Riggs & Elizabeth his wife. 

—ay 30'" Huldah, Daughter to John 
Riggs, & Abigail his Wife. 

— nel6'" Charry Ann and Sarah Daugh- 
ters to Johu Goodsell and Anne his 
Wife, Baptized on y' Mother's Right. 

— uly 4'" David Johnson Son to Joseph 
Riggs & Anne his Wife. 

—gust 15'" Nabby Daughter to Nathan 
Fairchild & Lois his Wife. 

1780. 

— eb*' 20'" Betsey Dau" to Abr'" Beech- 
er &: Desire his wife. 

— b' 27'" Gideon Son to Gideon Tucker 
&. Euuice his Wife. 295 

— eb' 27'" David Son to Eben^-^ Plant & 
Esther his Wife. 

— eb* 27'" Comfort Dau" to Noah R. Ly- 
man & Comfort his Wife. 

March 5'" Naboth Son to Nathan Buck- 
ingham «fc Esther his Wife. 

March 15'" Lucy Dau"" to Gideon Perry 
& Hannah his Wife. 

March 19'" Euuice Wife to Justus Can- 
de, baptized. 

March 19'" James Son to Cap' Daniel 
Chatfield & Prudence his Wife. 

March 19"' Enos Sou to John Towner 
& Racliel Ins Wife. 

March 22'^, Marcy Dau" to Justus Bris- 
toll, & Sarah liis Wife. 

ch 22'^ Sheldon son to Gad Bristol!, 

& Rachel his Wife. 



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19 



*■'' 33'S Isaiali, sou to Justus Cande, 

& Eunice liis Wife. 
" 12"' Huldali, Daufi to Isaac Chat- 

tleld & Sarali his Wife. 
' 30"> Elislia, sou to Caleb Caiide & 

Aune his Wife. 
8* Sarah Ann, Dan*' to Johu Chat- 
field & Mary his Wife. 
*'' Laban, Son to Desire, Wife to 

Laban, Ne,a:ro. 
— "' David Son to Joseph Towner, 

Ju', and Mary his Wife. 
Ruth (?) D ^1' to White 

& Han 

(The above entry is the last on page ^d of the ohl 
record and partly worn off.) 



Baptisms by tlie ReV M^ Lyniau, tak- 
en off from his Files. 
May 27, 1750, Samuel, Son of Joseph 

Orsbon. 

27, 1750, William, Son to Richard 

Smith. 

27, 1750, Anna, Daughter of Zach- 

ariali Hawkins. 

June 21, 1752, Johu, Son of Thomas 
Uftard. 

June 14, 1752, Ann, Daughter of Daniel 
Hawkins. 

Aug'* 9, 1752, Gideon, Sou, and Hannah, 
Daughter, twius to Sara" Wheler. 

9, 1752, Elizabeth, Daughter to Sam- 
uel Hitchcock. 

March 22, 1749, Rodah, Daughter to Jo- 
seph Lewis. 

29, 1749, Betty, Daughter to Moses 

Bristol. 

Dec'' 13, 1749, Ebenezer, Son to Samuel 
Hitchcock. 

Aug"' 13, 1749, Jeremiah, Sou to John 
Duraud. 

Febi- 7, 1748, Edmun, Sou to Timothy 
Washband. 

March 8. 1752, Timothy, Son of Caleb 
Candee. 

8,1752, Isabel, Daughter to Elisha 

Lewis. 

June 11, 1749, Rachel, Daughter to Mo- 
ses Bristol. 

DeC^ 12, 1752, Hanah, Daughter of James 
Pangboru. 



June 19, 1748, Joseph, Son to James 

Wheler. 
March 25, 1750, Lois, Daughter to Jabez 

Thompson. 
July 27, 1755, Naboth, Son to Joseph 

Orsbon. 
Jany 15, 1750, Philis, Negro woman to 

James Wheler. 

17, 1750, Joseph, Son to Joseph 

Towner. 

Aug^t 30^ 17(31^ Benjamin, Son to Thom- 
as Uftbrd. 

Septi- 6, 1761, David, Son to Abijah Hide. 

April 5, 1747, Phebe, Daughter to Jonah 
Weed. 

May 17, 1747, Ebenezer, Son to Abiel 
Fairchild. 

24, 1747, Daniel, Son to Israel John- 
son. 

24, 1747, Luvaua, Daughter to Elea- 

zer Wooster. 

Sepi' 28, 1749, Dorcas Johnson, baptized 
upon account or Isaac Knowles &Wife. 

Aug^t — , 1751, Sarah, Daughter to Moses 
Bristol. 

June 30, 1751, Elizabeth, Daughter to 
Daniel Hawkins. 

April 12, 1753, Abraham, Sou, to Abra- 
ham Basset. 

April 8, 1753, Andrew, Sou to Coe Hiu- 
mau. 

May 3, 1759, Ely, Son, Ruth and Lois, 
Daughters, thrins to Daniel Orsbon. 

Aug'^t 24, 1755, Mary, Daughter to Dan- 
iel Hawkins. 

Ocf 28, 1758, Auar, Son to Avah Ward. 

Dec' 10, 1758, Amos, Sou to Beujamin 
Fox. 

Dec' 19, 1758, Oliver, Sou to Oliver Chat- 
field. 

19, 1758, Timothy, Sou to Phineas 

Johnson. 

Sep*i' 2, 1753, Ester, Daughter to John 
Basset. 

March 19, 1758, Sarah, Daughter to 
Ephraim Andres. 

Feb^ 19, 1749, Pero, Negro, upon his con- 
fession of Faith was baptized. 

Dec' 3, 1752, Saiuuel, Son to Joseph Ors- 
bon. 

Feby 29, 1756, David, Sou to David 
Johnson. 



20 OXFORD 

March 15, 1759, James, Son to John 

Riggs, Jun''. 
Oct^29, 1752, Beujamiu, Sou to Epliraiui 

Wash ban, upon his mother's account. 
March 20, 1748. Joseph, Son to Joseph 

Orsbon. 
Nov'^5, 1752, John, Sou to John Chattield, 

Jun^ 
5, 1752, Anna, Daughter to Joseph 

Trowbridge. ' 

Aug^* 26, 1759, Joseph, Son to Zachariah 

Hawkins. 
Nov 30, 1755, Nezer, Sou to Samuel 

Hitchcock. 
Dec! 8, 1754, Sarah, Daughter to Daniel 

Orsbon. 
March 4, 1750, Rachel Smith, v'' Wife of 

Richard Smith was baptized on her 

own Accouut. 
— ril 4, 1756, Justis, Sou to Caleb Cande. 
4, 1756, Gideon, Son to James 

Pangborn. 
22, 1755, Samuel, Son to Robart 

Hawkins. 

28, 1749, Micah, Son to Samuel 



Wooster. 
May 28, 1749, Naomi, Daughter to Eleazer 

Wooster. 
May 28, 1749, Laban, Sou to Pero, Negro. 
Sepf 23, 1750, Moses, Sou to James 

Wheler. 
July 29, 1750, Eunis, Daughter to Moses 

Hawkins. 
Aug' 5, 1750, Jeremiah, Son to Ebenezer 

Riggs. 

5, 1750, Elizabeth, Daughter to 

John Riggs. 

5, 1750, Gidecm, Son to John Chat- 
field. 

July 15, 1750, Joseph, Son to Timothy 
Wooster. 

Ocf^U, 1753, Moses, Son to Moses Bristol. 

14, 1753, Sarah, Daughter to Daniel 

Hawkins. 

July 20, 1755, Daniaras, Daughter to 

Zadok Hawkins. 
March 17, 1754, Samuel, Sou to Caleb 

Caudee. 
Feb>" 29, 1754, Nehemiah, Son to John 

Durand. 

17, 1754, Kathariue, Daughter to 

Charles Griffiu. 



HISTORY. 

May 18, 1755, David, Son to Israel 
Trowbridge. 

May 12, 1751, Elizabeth, Daughter to 
John Durand. 

May 19, 1751, Eunice, Daughter to Sam- 
uel Wooster. 

June 2, 1751, Eliezer, son to Robart 
Hawkins. 

July 15, 1753, Ely, Son to Israel Trow- 
bridge. 

DeC^ 4, 1754, Ruth Ame, Daughter to 
Richard Smith. 

June 2, 1754, Ely, Sou to Oliver Chat- 
tield. 

Jans' 20, 1758, Richard, Sou to Richard 
Smith. 

March 25, 1757, Hannah, Daughter to 
Abraham Basset. 

Mar. 15, 1757, Ann, Daughter to Samuel 
Hitchcock. 

July 7, 1754, Sarah, Daughter to Samuel 
Wooster. 

Deci 7, 1755, Ely, Son to Moses Bristol. 

7, 1755, Ann, Daughter to John 

Riggs. 

May 14, 1750, Hannah, Daughter to 

Samuel Wheeler. 
Sepf^ 8, 1754, Ruth, Daughter to Zach- 
ariah Hawkins. 
Aug^t 12, 1750, David, Son to Abial 

Fairchild. 
Aug^* 19, 1750, Samuel, Son to Samuel 

Hitchcock. 
Deer 12, 1755, Lidy, Wife to Zadok 

Hawkins, was baptized upon her own 

account. 
June 19, 1757, Betty, Daughter to John 

Smith, Jun"^. 
April 2, 1758, Lucy, Daughter to Et>en- 

ezer John sou. 
June 11, 1758, John, Sou to John Bassit. 

11, 1758, John, Sou to Charles 

Griffin. 

Jany 10, 1757, Susannah, Daughter to 

John Ovitt. 
April ] 1, 1759, Ephraim, Son to Thomas 

Uphard. 

11, 1756, Sibil, Daughter to Isaac 

Trowbridge. 

11, 1756, Huldah, Daughter to 

Charles Griffin. 

May 3. 1752, Gaylord, Son to Zachariali 
Hawkins. 



THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 

May 17, 1752, Esther. Daugliter to Isaac 

Trowbridge. 
Ocf 36, 174(5, Hannalj, Daughter to 

Samuel Wooster. 
April 6, 1757, Mose's, Sou to Abraham 

Wooster. 
Sepf — , 1753, Joseph, Sou to Ebuuezer 

Riggs. 
Feby 7, 1756, Obedieuce, Daughter to 

Johu Chatfield. 
Deer 25, 1757^ .^^y^ Samuel, Nathan and 
Philosephus, Daughter and Sons to 
Samuel Woodruff. 
July 21, 1754, Benjamin Fox. 
July 21, 1754, Comfort, Daughter to 

Benjamin Fox. 
July 21, 1754, Agar, Son to Abiel Fair- 
child. 
July 21, 1754, John, Son to Ebeuezer 

Blackmail. 
Sept'- 7, 1760, Edward, Son to Sam" 

Hawkins. 
Aug'*' 31, 1760, Mary, Daughter to Josh- 
ua Perry. 
Oct^- 5, 1760, Sarah, Daughter to Jabez 

Harger. 
Novi 30^ i7g()^ Nathaniel, Sou to James 

Paugborn. 
Dec 7, 1760, Sarah, Daughter to Elias 

Whitraore. 
Dec' 11, 1761, John, Sou to Samuel 

Woodrufl'. 
Dec'- 11, 1761, Martha, Daughter to Peter 

Wooster. 
June 17, 1756, Elizabeth, Daughter to 

Johu Bassit. 
Nov', 1745, Spears, Son to Thomas 

Ufford. 
Nov', 1745, Jared, Son to Joseph Orsbou. 
Dec^ 1745, James, Son to Joseph Trow- 
, bridge. 
>nDec^ 1745, Funis, Daughter to Deacon 
Ebenezer Riggs. 
Feby 16, 1746, Moses, Son to Joseph 

Weeds. 
Feby 16, 1746, John, Son, aud Elizabeth, 
Daughter, twins to Zachariah Haw- 
kins. 
Feby 18, 1759, Andrew, Sou to Samuel 

Woodruff. 
Feby 25, 1759, Ebeuezer, Son to Timothy 
Washbon. 



21 

March 23, 1760, Mary, Daughter to Sam" 

Hitchcock. 
March 16, 1760, Mary, Daughter to 

Sam" Chatfield, Jn'. 
March 'iS, 1751, Daniel, Son to Isaac 

Trowbridge. 
July 26, 1761, Enoch, Son to Aaron 

Sperry. 
July 26, 1761, Abigail, Daughter to Eben- 
ezer Buckingham. 
July 26, 1761, Sarah, Daughter to Israel 

Trowbridge. 
June 28, 1761, Sarah, Daughter to Yel- 

verton Perry. 
July 5,1761, Noah,Son to Daniel Hawkins. 
Nov'' 10, 1748, Hannah, Daughter to 

John Chatfield. 
Dec"- 25, 1748, Elitus, Son to Joseph 

Trowbridge. 
Jauy 15, 1758, John, Son to Abiel Fair- 
child, Jl^ 
Dec' 22, 1758, Sarah, Daughter to Johu 
■ Chatfield, Jn'. 
April 21, 1754, Mary, Daughter to Isaac 

Trowbridge. 
April 28, 1754, Prudence, Daughter to 

Jauies Paugborn. 
Sepf 27, 1761. Moses, Son to Zachariah 
■ Hawkins. 
Octr 4, 1761, Ebenezer, Son to Ebenezer 

Johnson. 
March 26, 1749, Naomi, Daughter to 

Isaac Trowbridge. 
April 10,1749, Phebe, Daughter to Thom- 
as Ufford. 
' The above a true copy as takeu from 
the Files of the Rev^ M» Lyman. 

Test, David Brownson, Pastor. 

1786. 

Jany 29*'', Jason, Son to Lieu* Sanv' 
Cande & Mabel his Wife. 

March 12"', Billy Ranslear, Sou to Gid- 
eon Tucker & Eunice his Wife. 

April 18*'', Noah Russel, Sou to Noah 
Russel Lyman & Comfort bis Wife. 

July 23'S Esther, Daut^' to Nehemiah 
Cande «fc Content his Wife. 

Aug"* 27*", Selena, Dau*"- to Gideon 
Cande. 

Oct'- 11*", Huldah, Dau*' to Doct* Osee 
Dutton & Elizabeth his Wife. 



OXFORD EISTOBT 



22 

& Wife. 

1787. 

Jau> r\ Barritt, Sou to Justus Caude 

& Euuice W^^Vife^^^ ^^^^^^^^ 

^tS:;S:1:i^^e"apt.edonUer 

Marcli 0"', Leman, bon to Eleazar »p 
J.ft?"rprsl't„JosepUKi.. 

ApVlToeor^ltu to Ja.es Ri».* 
^.'^"jCb: SCO to Joseph Osboro. 

,^:ferH-rDau..toT.,otb. 
A^?r.irLov;ca,Dau»toUeu.Na>,ot. 

,°^^,,%rr;trsa.«B„c.. 

ineham & Ruth his Wife. 
May - Ruth Anu, Dauu^ to Joseph 

Wooster & Hannah his Wife 
junelO-,Lucinda.Dau-toCap Eben 

ezer Riggs& Anne his Wif^.^ 
July 15^ Burton, Son to bam 

Ju^ & Silence his Wife. 
July 15- Lucy, Dau- to Amos Fox ^ 

.^^"I^i'Ieth" son to Jesse Scoot & 
^£%is^'ife;b^Pt-edo.biB-th- 

A^'rSlfMicajah. son to Gideon Per- 
ry & Hannah his Wife. 
Sen- 2^ Lois, Dau- to Nathan Fan 

st^'e^ta^e H:nnah ^ Sarah 

' Daut'u; Jere» Mathew Kelly & Sarah 
WsWite,baptized on their mother. 

OcT28"S John, Son to John Townor & 
Rachel his Wife. r>;^„.Xr 

Dec^ 9t\ Moses, Son to Moses Riggs^ 
Susa his Wife, baptized on the moth- 
er's right. ^^g3_ 
janv 27- Patty, Dau^ to Cap' Sam 

racde & Mable his Wife. 
JaT2rJ%ClarkWoodruffSon oNehe 

miah6ande& Content his Wife. 



Febv 7-. Leva. Daut^ to Timothy John- 

M'arch'Te^S Jonathan & Julee^ Sons to 

George Clark & Lydia his Wife. 
AmTll' Almira Clementina, Daut^ to 
""'Doct' 6see Dutton & Elisabeth his 
Mry''4?^ Ruth, Dau- to Sam" Bucking- 
ham & Ruth his Wife. 
June 13-, Elijah, Son to Jesse Scott &^ 
MaiT his Wife baptized on las moth- 

J:ly"o^' Elizabeth, Dau- to David 

jn\T20^\ Isaac Anson, Son & PoUy 
Roxana, Dau- to Isaac Brischo & 

J^SS-. Son to Joseph woos- 
ter & Hannah his Wife. 
August 3^ Lois, Daut^ to Joseph Town 

pr Jn^ & Mary his Wife. 
Sept^ 21-, Hannah, Dau- to Gideon Per- 

Se^t'^B^ty"^^^^ 
O^^rS^^-toJohuBotsford 

Oct m'sarah, Dau» to Dan. Chattield 
& Elizabeth his Wife, baptized on her 

mother's right. 
Oct^ 26-, Lorinda, Dau''^ to Naboth Os- 

born & Susa his Wife. ,^Y^■^n^^ ' 

Oct^28'iS Enoch & Daniel, Sous to Dan 
Perkins & Elizabeth his Wite bap- 
tized on their mother's right. 
Nov'l7-, Leverit, Son to Joseph Os- 

born Jn^ & Sarah his Wife. 
Dec™;-, Laurea, Dau- & Horace, Son 
to Job Cande & Sarah his wife. 
1789- 
Jany 20'i', Sheldon Warden, presented 

Kxr Pnn' Abr™ Bassit. 
Ai^riU" Almira, Dau" to Eleazar Sper- 

rv & Dorcas his Wife. 
May 24'^ Laurea, Dau- to Jared Osborn 

& Freelove Amy Ins Wife. 
May 31-, Anne, Dau- to Joseph Riggs 

& Anne his Wife. ^, , p r ,.„,an 
May 31-, Sarah, Daut^ to Noah R.L. man 

fc Comfort his Wife. . 

M^y 31-, Hannah, Dau" to Nehemiah 

Duraud & Rath his Wife. 



THE CONOBEOATIONAL CHUBCH. 



23 



July 19*'\ Lemau & L3^mau,Sons, twins, 

to George Clark & Lydia his Wife. 
Aug^* letn, Esther, Dau^^ to Job Cande 

& Sarah his Wife. 
Sepf 20"^, Samuel, Sou to Joseph Woos- 

ter &. Hannah his Wife. 
Nov' l^S Gilead, Sou to Nehemiah Cande 

& Content his Wife. 
Novi i5th^ Billy Austin, Son to Jer^^ M. 

Kelly & Sarah his Wife, baptized on 

its mother's right. 
Dec» 6*'', Julia, Dauf^ to David Cande. 
Dec"- IS^'S Samuel, Son to Cap» Sam" 

Cande & Mable his Wife. 
Dec"^ 20"', Asa, Son to Gideon Cande. 

1790. 
Jany 5">, Julie, Son to Tho^ Kimberly & 

Arma his Wife, baptized ou his moth- 
er's right. 
Jany 17*1^, Sophia Charlotte, Daut^ to D"^ 

Osee Duttou & Elizabeth his Wife. 
April 25"S Polly, Dau'^ to Olive Perry. 

baptized on account of her Grand 

Parents, Mr. & Mrs. James & Mable 

Perry. 
May 30*'S Ransom, Son to Joseph Os- 

born, Jnr &, Sarah his Wife. 465 

June 20"% Curtiss, Soa to Abel Waters 

& Ruth his Wife. 
July 4"\ Garry, Son to Charles Lewis & 

Lois his Wife. 
July 25^^, Lampson, Son to David Smith 

Jn"^ & Melissa his Wife. 
August 8*^ Sophia, Dau'' to Dan. Chat 

field & Elisabeth his Wife baptized 

on her mother's right. 
August 15, Polly, Daughter to Timothy 

Johnson Jn'. 470 

August 15f^ Lucy, Daut' to Sam" Buck- 
ingham & Ruth his Wife. 
August 15'^, Cerina, Dau*"^ to Truman 

Stoddard & Sarah his Wife. 
Sept' 12"', Milly, Presented for Baptism 

by Roger, Negro. 
Sepfr 15'^, James, Son to James Riggs 



& Sarah his Wife. 

Sepf 15"', Nancy, 
Sally, 
Milly, 
Lorain, 
Harriet, 
Clarissa, 



474 



Daughters to 
)■ Hezekiah Hine & 
Hannah his wife. 

480 



Oct'' 24^^, Andrew, Seymour, Merritt, 
Sons to Benj" Bradley, baptized on 
their mother, Eunice Bradley's right. 

Ocf- .31'', Sarah, Dau'> to John Townor 
& Rachel his Wife. 

Dec^^ 5"', Esther, Dau"^ to Roger Perkins 
& Betsey his Wife. 485 

1791. 

Jany 9'^, Lucy, Dauf to Justus Cande 
& Eunice his Wife. 

Jany 16"S Lewis, Son to Naboth Osborn 
& Susa his Wife. 

Feby 23d^ Lois, Dau^ to Isaac Chatfield 
& Sarah his Wife. 

April W^, Betty, Dau"- to Amos Fox & 
Jemima his Wife. 

May 1'*, Lyman, Son to Abel Waters & 
Ruth his Wife. 490 

May 29*1', Maria Sylvia, Dau'f to D"- Osee 
Dutton & Wife. 

June 5^'^, Clark, Son to James Riggs & 
Sarah his Wife. 

June 5*11, Nancy, Dau*"^ to Moses Cande 
& Sarah his Wife. 

June 12"\ Amirita Julia Abbetance, 
Dau'T to Isaac Brischo & Mary his 
Wife. 

July 3S Russel, Son to Joseph Wooster 
& Hannah his Wife. 495 

July 3*^, Bassil, Son to David Cande. 

July 3<*, Russel Parley, Son to Medad 
Cande & Betty his Wife. 

July 17"', Asa, Son to Gideon Cande. 

August 7"', John, Son to Nehemiah Du- 
rand & Ruth his Wife. 

Aug"' 2V\ Billy Levitt, Son to Nehemiah 
Cande & Content his Wife. 500 

Sepf^ 18"S Cretia, Dau" to Truman Bris- 
tol & Polly his Wife. 

Sepf 18"', Phunny, Dauf^ to John Buck- 
ingham Aj. Lucy his Wife. 

Nov' 6"', Harvey, Son to Jared Osborn 
& Freelove Amy his Wife. 

Nov 20"', Leveritt, Son to David Smith 
Jn"^ & Abilena his Wife. 

Dec' 13*^ Agnis, Dau" to Benajah Chat- 
field & Wife baptized on the right of 
its Grandmother, Zeruiah Chatfield. 

505 
1792- 

Marcb 25tb, William Harlow, Son to Hez^ 
Hine & Hannah his Wife. 



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OXFORD HISTOEY 



April 8">, Patty, Daug^'^ to Cap* Sam" 

Cande & Mable his Wife. 
April 8*''. Rosetta, Dau" to George Clark 

& Lydia his Wife. 
April 15"', Sally, Dau*' to Jer^' M. Kelly 

& Sarah his Wife, baptized on her 

mother's right. 
April 22^ Nathan Lewis, Sou to Nathan 

Buckingham Jn'^ & Selena his Wife. 

510 

April 22^^, Burr, Son to Charles Lewis & 
Lois his Wife, baptized on his moth- 
er's right. 

April 24"', Wait, Son & Esther, Dau*"- 
to W"' Lewis J"^ & Sarah his Wife. 

May 6'^', Roswell Burr, Sou to Lucy 
Tucker. 

May i::5"', Judsou, Son to Daniel Fox & 
Elizabeth his Wife. 515 

May 20"', Treat, Son toBenj" Bradley & 
Eunice his Wife, baptised on his 
mother's right. 

June 24"', Leverett, Son to Luke Bun- 
nell & Sarah his Wife. 

July 22d, Enos, Son to Lieu* Job Cande 
& Sarah his Wife. 

August 5"', Nathan, Son to Sam" Buck- 
ingham & Ruth his Wife. 

Sept* 23'', Esther, Wife to Sam" A. 
Buckingham, baptized. 520 

Sepf 28'', Sherman, Son to Sam" A. 
Buckingham & Esther his Wife. 

Sept. 23d, Pharry, Dau*^ to Roger Per- 
kings & Betsey his Wife. 

Ocf 2V*, Snkky, Dau^^^to John Bucking- 
ham &■ Lucy his Wife. 

Oct"^ 28"', Saraii, Dau" to Joseph Woos- 
ter & Hannah his Wife. 

Nov'^ 4"', Betsey, Dau" to Medad Cande 
&, Betty his Wife. 525 

Nov' 4"^, Betty, Dau" to Joel Perry & 
Betty his Wife. 

NoT-^ 18"', Rusha, Daut' to Timothy 
Johnson, Jn'. 

Dec' 9*1', Sally, Dau*' to Moses Cande & 
Sarah his Wife. 

Dec 30*'', Susanna, Dau*' to Nehemiah 
Cande & Content his Wife. 

Jan> y', Lewis, Sou to Abijah Chatfield 
& Hannah his Wife, baptized on his 
mother's right. 530 



Jan> 27"', Roswell, Sou to Lewis Black- 
man. 

March 17*'', Meritt, Son to David Cande. 

May 12*'s Hester, Dau*^ to Molly Bristol. 

June 2 ', Comfort Maria, Dau*"^ to Philo 
R.Bristol »lv: Nabby his Wife, baptized. 

June 5*'', Roswell, Son to Eliakim 
Beardslee & Wife. 535 

June 5*'', Henry, 1 Sons »J^ Daut'" to 
John, ! John Bassit, Jn'" & 
! Kezia his Wife, bap- 
J tized on their moth- 
er's right. 



Sally, 
Polly, 



June 27*'', Ethiel, Son to Joseph Perkins 
& Sarah liis Wife, baptized on the 
right of its Grandmother, Esther 
Perkins. 540 

July 4"', Lecta, Dau" to Jared Osboru 
& Freelove his Wife. 

July 14*'', Leman Stone, Sou to Naboth 
Osborn & Susa his Wife. 

July 16"', John, Son to Isaac Chatfield &: 
Sarah his Wife. 

Ocf^ 13*^ Calvin, Son to Thomas Leav- 
enworth. 

Jan> 19*1', Esther, Dau" to David Smith, 

Jn"^ & Abilena his Wife. 545 

Feb>" 27*'', Harvey, Son to Cap* Jeri* 

Riggs it Anue his Wife. 
March 2'*, Aurelius, Sou to Sam" A. 

Buckingham & Esther his Wife. 
March 30*'', Eliiah, Son to Eben" Hin- 

nian, Jn',& Eunice his Wife, baptized 

on his mother's right. 
April 20*'', Aviss, Dau*' to Cap' Sam uel 

Cande & Mable his Wife. 
April 20*1', Nancy, Dau*' to Benitt Rice 

& Wife. 550 ' 

April 20*'', Reuben Mills, Son to Heze- 

kiah Hine & Hannali his Wife. 
April 20"', Polly, Dau*'' to Moses Caude 

& Sarah his Wife. 
April 27*1', Laura, Daut' to Truman 

Stoddard & Sarah his Wife. 
May 18"', Nathau, Sou to Kezia, Wife to 

John Bassit, Jn^ 

June 14"', John Riggs) Sous to Joel Per- 

and > ry and Elizabeth 

Benuitt, ) his Wife. 555 

June 15*1', Abigail linda Ann, Dau"^ to 

Dan' Fox (Sc Elisabeth his Wife. 
June 15*'', Azel, Sou to John Bucking- 



THE CONGREGATIONAL CIIUIWJI. 



liatn it Lucy his Wife. 
Juue 22'', Esther, Daut^ to David Riggs 

&. Betty his Wife. 
July G"', Noyes, Sou to Euuice Bradley, 
Wife to Beuj" Bradley. .560 

July 20''', Cande, Sou to Roger Perkius 

& Betsy his Wife. 
Aug^t i7th^ Haunah, Dau'"" to James 

Riggs & Sarah his Wife. 
Aug't 18"', Susa, Dauf toPhiueas Johu- 

son & Sarah his Wife. 
August 24"S Roswell,Sou to Sarah, Wife 

to Jeremiah M.Kelly. 
August 24"', Luciua, Dauf to Samuel 

Riggs &. Gharry his Wife. 505 

August 2-1"', Laura, Daut' to Philo 

Beecher & Mary his Wife. 
August 3P^ Kezia, Daut' to Philo R. 

Bristol & Nabby his Wife. 
Sept'- 14"', Chester, Son to Hannah, 

Wife to Abijah Chatlield. 
Ocf 8"', Hannah, Dauf^to Joseph VVoos- 

ter & Hanuah liis Wife. 
Ocf 8"', Laura, Daut' to Abel Waters 

& Ruth his Wife. 570 

Oct^ 5"', Elias, Sou to Eliz ibeth, Wife 

to Dan. Chatfield. 
Oct^ 14"', Lucy & Charry, Daughters to 

David Smith & Lucy his Wife. 
Ocf 14"', Stephen, ) 

Philo & [ Sons to David 

Edward, ) Riggs. 575 

Ocf 14"', Lyman, Sou to Wm. Morriss 

& Elizabeth his Wife. 
Ocf 19"', Lester, Sou to Sam" Bucking- 
ham &. Ruth his Wife. 
Ocf 30"', Lewis, Son to Eli Chatfield, 

presented by M"^^ Nickols. 
Nov'^23'', Rossita, Dauf-to Medad Cande 

& Betty his Wife, 580 

Dec^ 14"', Esther, Dau*-^ to Timothy 

Johnson, Jn^ 
Dec'' 25"', Sarah, Dauf to Nathan Buck- 
ingham, Jn"^ (S;^ Silence his Wife. 
1795- 
Jany28"', Lemuel, Son toEli.sabeth Dut- 

ton. 
Feby 28'^, Rebekah, Dauf^ to Abigail, 

W^ife to David Perkins. 
March 3'\ George, Son to Gideon Cande. 

585 
March 7"', Joel, Son to Joseph Durand 

presented by Lieut. John Bassitt. 



April 5"', Asahel, Son to Joseph Townor 
& Mary his Wife. 

Aprils"', Clarissa,Dauf to Ebeu" Buck- 
ingham, Ju' & Olive his Wife. 

April 5"', Sally Maria, Dau"" to William 
Morriss & Elizabeth his Wife. 

July 5"'. :\Iaria, Dauf^ to Sam" Tucker, 
Jn'' & Silence his Wife. .590 

July 5"', Alma, Dauf to Luke Bunuel 
& Sarah his Wife. 

July .5"', Maria & Laura, Dauf" to Jolin 
Riggs the 3d & Mary his Wife. 

July 26"', Roxauia, Dauf to Lewis 
Blackman. 

Sepf 3'^, Julia, Dau"- to Ebeuezer Fair- 
child &. Eunice his Wife. 595 

Sepf G"', Leverett, Son to Cap* Job 
Cande & Sarah his Wife. 

Sepf 27"', Esther, Dauf to David Smith 
Jn'' and Abilena his Wife. 

Ocf 4"', Aguis, Dauf to Roger Perkins 
and Betsey his Wife. 

Ocf 18'^ Anne Maria, Dauf to Moses 
Caude & Sarah his Wife. 
irse. 

Feb^ 9"', Pollv, Daut^^ ?"" ^^^'\ Bnstol, 
& Burrit, Son ( »^aP izedou their 
) mother s right. 

Feby 14"', Luthauia, Dauf to Naboth 
Osborn & Susa his Wife. 

Feby 14"', Eunice, Dauf to Justus Caude 
& Eunice his Wife. 

Feby 28"', Roxana, Dauf to Eben^r Buck- 
ingham & Olive his Wife. 

Feby 28"', Hezekiah, Sou to John Buck- 
ingliam & Lucy his Wife. 605 

March l*^^Rosewell, Son to Agur Curtiss 
& Polly his Wife, baptized on the right 
of its grandparents, M"^ Nathan Buck- 
ingham and Wife. 

March 6"', Bennett, Son to Enoch Bris- 
tol &, Sally his Wife. 

March 13"', Philomela, Dau" to D-^ Osee 
Dutton & Elisabeth his Wife,upou her 
mother's right. 610 

March 27"', Lucy Maria, Dau"' to Joel 
Perry & Betty his Wife. 

May 15"', Harvey, Son to Truman Stod- 
ard & Sarah his Wife. 

May 15"', Lyman, Sou to Jledad Cande 
& Betty his Wife. 

May 29"', Hariott, Dauf to Philo Beech- 
er & Mary his Wife. 



26 



OXFOBD HISTORY. 



July W\ Polly, Daugtr to Nehe'^Durand 

& Ruth bis Wife. 615 

Augst 7th^ pijiio^ gou to Kezia, Wife to 

John Bassit, Jn^. 
Augst gth^ Truman, Son to Isaack Chat- 
field & Sarah his Wife. 
Sept"^ 11*11. Esther, Dau'r to Sam" A. 

Buckingham & Estlier his Wife. 
Ocf 9t^ Thirza, Daut' to Hez^^ Hine & 

Han ah his Wife. 620 

Ocf 9*", Lewis, Son to Truman Bristol 

& Wife. 
Ocf lOtb, Calvin, Son to Cap' Asahel 

Hide & Wife. 
Oct' 17"% Charles, Son to Roger Perkins 

& Betsey his Wife. 
Dec"" 4"', Nathan, Son to Isaac Brischo 

& Mary his Wife. 
Dec ^% Joel, Son to Luke Bunnell & 

Sarah his Wife. 625 

Dec 11"', Wyllys, Son to Chester Smith 

& Kezia his Wife. 
Dec' ll*^'', Betsey, Dau*' to Dorman 

Leavenworth & Lucy his Wife. 
Dec 11"% Clarissia, Dauf to Philemon 

Hinman and Polly his Wife. 
Dec 25'^ Nathan Beecher, Son to Eben- 

ezer Fairchild & Eunice his Wife. 
Deer 3iflt^ Nancy, Dauf to Elizabeth, 

Wife of Dan. Chatfield. 630 

1797- 

March 13, Lucy, ( Daughter & Sons to 
Markus < Cap* Asol Hide & 
Cyrus, ( Mary his Wife. 

April 1, Betsey, Daughter to William 
Morris & Elisabeth his Wife. 

April 23, Enos, Son to Abijah Chatfield 
&i- Hannah his Wife, baptized on his 
mother's right. 635 

May 14, Manson, Sou to Nathan Buck- 
ingham, Jn"" & Selene his Wife. 

June 25, Lois, Daughter to Moses Cande 
& Sarah his Wife. 

July 23, Anne, Daughter to Timothy 
Johnson. 

August 11, Sarah, Daughter to David 
Can dee & Abigail his Wife, baptized 
on her rite. 

August 27, Eunice, Daughter to Samuel 
Riggs & C harry hie Wife. 640 

September 10, Noah Russel Lyman, Son 

to Philo Riggs Bristol & Nabby his Wife. 



September 10, Melitta & Meritta, twins 
to Enoch Bristol & Sarah his Wife. 

Septem'" 29, Ursula, Daughter to David 
Smith Jn^^ & Abilene his Wife. 

Septem^*'^ 29, Lucy, Daughter to John 
Buckingham & Lucy his Wife. 

Oct*^ 15, Joseph, Son toEthiel Lounsbury 
& Betsey his Wife. 645 

Ocf 15, Locca, Daugh'to Caleb Tomliu- 
son & Nabby his Wife. 

Ocf^ 16, Charry & Daniel, Daugh"" and 
Son to Walker Willmot and Mille 
Cent his Wife. 

Ocf^ 29'^ Cynthia, Daugh' to Asel Hide 
& Mary his Wife. 

Nov> 19"% David, Son to Ebenezer Buck- 
ingham and Olive his Wife. 650 

Nov'' 26, Eunice, Daughter to Benjamin 
Bradley & Eunice his Wife. 

Novi' 26, Alta, Daughter to Joseph Per- 
kins & Sarah his Wife. 
1798. 

Feby 13*^ Augustus, Son to Samuel 

Buckingham and Rutli his Wife. 
April 22d, Bazil, Son to Cap* Sam" Cande 

& Mable his Wife. 
April 29"% Thirza, Dau*!- to Joel Perry 

& Betty his Wife. 655 

May 27*1^, Mary, Dau*»' to John Riggs, 3d 

& Mary his Wife. 
June 3, Sally, Daughter to Naboth Os- 

born & Susa his Wite. 
June 17*^ Rebekah, Dauf^ to Truman 

Stodard & Sarah his Wife. 
August 5, Ralph, Son to Roger Perkins 

& Betsey his Wife. 
Sepf^ 2% Spencer, Son to Hez'' Hine & 

Wife. 660 

Sep*!' 9, Laura, Daughter to Lemuel 

Beardsley & Mercy his Wife. 
Sept'- 24*^ Rose we 11 & Betsey, Son & 

Daughter to Abeel Winters «fc Ruth 

his Wife. 
Sept"^ 25, Benjamin Vincen & Alvin 

Austin, Sons to Zebulon Lines & Lois 

his Wife. 665 

Sepf 30"% James, Son to Daniel McCune 

& Sally his Wife. 
Ocf^ 21«% Stiles, Son to Chester Smith & 

Wife. 
Dec^^ 9"% Mark, Son to Dorman Leaven- 
worth & Lucy his Wife. 



CONGBEGA TIONAL CH UECH-BAFTISMS. 



27 



Dem'' 30''', Cyrus, Son to Truman Bris- 
toll & Polly bis Wife. 
1799- 

Fcby 3'', Clark, Sou to Samuel A. Buck- 
ingham & Ester bis Wife. 

Feby 28'!^, Zeroi, Son to Isaac CbatBekl 
& Sarab bis Wife. 671 

March 10, Lucinda, Daughter to Elijah 
Harger. 

March 10, Sherman, Son to Zebulon 
Lines & Lois bis Wife. 

March 17, Sally, Daughter to Caleb 
Tomlinson & Nabby bis Wife. 

March 31, Elisha, Son to George Clark 
& Lydia bis Wife, baptised on bis 
mother's right. 675 

April 21^^ Polly, Daughter to Ebenezer 
Buckingham 6i. Olive bis Wife. 

April 21^^ Handford, Son to Eben"" Fair- 
child & Eunice bis Wife. 

April 28, Parsoxe, Daughter to Cyrus 
Candee & Rebekah bis Wife. 

May 11*'', Riverus, son to Martha, Wife 
of Noah Caude. 

May 19, Woodruff, son to Moses Candee 
& Sarah his Wife. 680 

May 26, Lockwood, Son to David Bun- 
nell & Polly his Wife. 

June 30, Beulah, Daughter to Natlian 
Buckingham. Jn"^ & Selene his Wife. 

July 7, Wm. Son to Wm. Morris & Elis- 
abeth bis Wife. 

August 27, Elizabeth An, Daughter to 
Elizabeth, Wife to Dan. Chattield. 

Sept'' 8*, Leman, Son to Sam" Riggs & 
Charry his Wife. 685 

Sepf 15, Hervey, Son to Luke Bunnell 
& Sarab bis Wife. 

Sept"^ 15, Ira, son to Enoch Bristol & 
Sally his Wife. 

October 13, Amanda, Daughter to Miles 
Lovlaud & Anne bis Wife. 

Ocf 27*1^, Alvin, Son to Timothy John- 
son. 690 

Novr 15"', Miah & Sheldon, Sous to 
Jermiab M. Kelly, baptised on their 
mother's right. 

Dec"^ 4*1', Agnis, Daut' to Cyrus Caude 
& Rebekah his Wife, 
isoo. 

Jany 9"', Polly, Dau'^ to David McCume 
& Sally bis Wife. 

Feby 16"', Hannah, Daut"^ to Ilauuah, 
Wife to Abijab Chatfield. 



Feby 23'', Adoniram, Son to Roger Per- 
kins & Betsey bis Wife. 695 

April 6, Julius, Sou to Daniel Cando 
& Lydia bis Wife, on his mother's 
right. 

April 6'^ Polly, Daughter to David 
Smith & Abilene bis Wife. 

April 20"', Elam, Son to Lemuel Beards- 
ley & Mercy bis Wife. 

May 9, Ira, Sou to Cap* Asabel Hide & 
Mary his ^Vife. 

May 9, Sebastian Maria Ximenes Pe- 
trucbio, Son to Doct"^ Hosea Dutton 
& Elizabeth bis Wife baptized on bis 
mother's right. 700 

June 26, Minerva, Daughter to John 
Basset, Jn'^ & Kezia bis Wife, baptiz- 
ed on its mother's right. 

July 6, Charles, Son to Benjamin Brad- 
ley & Eunice bis Wife, baptised on bis 
mother's right. 

July 6, Sarab, Daughter to Walker Will- 
mott tSi Millecent bis Wife. 

Sept"''^'^ 7, Esther, Daughter to Moses 
Candee & Sarab his Wife. 

Sept"''"^ 14, Avis, Daughter to Joseph 
Townor & Mary bis Wife. 705 

Sept'"'"^ 21, David Noyce, Son to Joseph 
Riggs & Lyddie bis Wife. 

Sepf't)'" 21, Abiel, Son to John Faircbild 
& Mary his Wife. 

Sept"''" 21, Isaac, Son to David Beecher 
& Polly bis Wife. 

Octo'" 20, Simon, Son & Susan & Eliza, 
Daughters to Susa Riggs. 710 

Octo'"^ 26, Auer Fowler, Son to Cap* Hez- 
ekiali Hiue & Hannah his Wife. 

Dec"''"" 14, Sally Daughter to Caleb Tom- 
linson & Nabby his Wife. 

j)ggmbr 14^ Elizabeth An, Daughter to 
David Buunel & Polly liis Wife. 

Dec"''" 28, Esther, Wife to Elijah Treat 

baptised. 715 

1801. 

January 11, Tbirza, Daughter to Zebu- 
lon Loins & Lois bis Wife. 

Jany 27, Philemon, Son, and Maria, 
Daughter, to Elijah Treat and Esther 
his Wife. 

March 22, Giles, Son to Miles Loveland 
and Anne his Wife. 

April 5, Bush, Son to Dorman Leaven- 
worth and Lucy his Wife. 720 



COSGREOATIONAL CIllJItClI-MARRIAaES. 29 



MARRIAGES. 



May 4thj ij64. 
These may Certify all iziJioni it inay Concern y^ those (Per= 
sons who are Specified by J^ame on the following (Pages ivere 
Tiiarried to each other. 

Test: (LJVIO fh(kOWJ^SOJ^, (Pastor. 

May 4, Samuel Smith and Sarah Ward, both of Oxford, entred into y^ Mar- 

riaa;e Covenant. 
Sept^ 5*1^, Daniel Osborn, Ju"'', of Oxford, k, Mary Picket of Darby entred 

into y** Marriage Covenant. 
27^'^ Isaac Northrup and Hannah Wheeler of Oxford entred into the 

Marriage Covenant. 
April 10*^, Caleb Candee, Jn'', and Anna Sperry, both of Oxford, entred 

into the Marriage Covenant. 

March 4*'^, Isaac Scott of Waterbury and Sarah Smith of Oxford entred 
into y'' Marriage Covenant. 

May 5"^, Enos Camp, Jn"", of New Milford, married to Lois Wheler of 

Oxford. 
Sept'" S*!, Ezekiel Perry and Martha Wooster entred into the Marriage 

Covenant. 
Dec" SS*!, John Riggs and Elizabeth Hawkins, both of Oxford, Married. 
Deo'' 30*1', Abraham Hotchkiss and Hannah Weede, both of Waterbury, 

entred into the Marriage Covenant. 

June 5*1', Enos Candee and Nabby Hatch, both of Oxford, Marryed. 

Aug«* 11, Jeremiah Riggs and Anne Woodruff, both of Oxford, Married. 

Sepf 8*1', Samuel Fenn of Waterbury married to Rachel Osborn of Oxford. 
Nov'" 16*1', Daniel Curtis of Southbury married to Tryel Ward of Oxford. 
Nov'' 17*1', John More of Newtown married to Dorcas Washbon of Oxford. 



30 OXFORD HISTORY. 

Teb' 14">, Lieu*. Thomas Clark and Eunice Riggs, both of Oxford, married 

to each other. 
April 12*1', Samuel Oteman of Allington married to Hannah Wooster of Oxford 
April 12, Eben^'" Osborn and Mamie Ward, both of Oxford. 
Augst 17*1^, Jeremiah Peck, Ju»», of Waterbury,raarried to Lois Bunnel of Oxford 
Sepf 11th, Jabez Kiggs and Sarah Osborn entered into y'' marriage Covenant. 
Oct'' 20**^, Cap*. Joseph Osborn & M''^ Abigail Lyman married to Each other. 
Dec 24*^, Isaac Nichols & Abigail Lyman, married. 

Feb. 8*1', Isaac Johnson of Southbury maried to Sarah Nichols of Oxford. 
Aug«* 2*1, Dan" Bassit of New Stratford married to Elizabeth liassit of Oxtord 

Feb'". 13*'', Noah Russell Lyman married to Comfort Fox. 

March 4*'', Mark Porter of Waterbury married to Abial Perkins. 

April 4*'', Benoni Ilurlbut of Litchfield married to Phebe Ufford of Oxford. 

Sepf 29th, Joseph Tucker & Eunice French, both of Derby, married. 

Dec'' 5*'', Eleazar Sperry married to Dorcass llolebrook. 

Jan''. 8*1', Abner Woolcot married to Catherine Griffin. 

Feb''. 5*1', David Cande of Oxford iMarried to Dinah Bristoll of West Haven. 

March 17, Ebenezer Hitchcock of Bethany mar. to Abigail Pritchard of Derby. 

April 30*1', Gideon Perry Married to Hannah Hinman. 

May 14*1', Gideon Candee married to Anna Andrus. 

Aug«* 12*1', j^t^j^Ij Dui-and, Ju'"', of Derby, married to Ruth Foot. 

Nov^ 22*^, Jeren)iah Durand IMarried to Hannah Trowbridge. 

Dec'" 13*1', Ezra Foot Maried to INIarey Durand of Derby. 

.June 10*1', Shoars Uflford Married to Elizabeth Durand. 

Sept'" 2'i, Nathan French married to Lucy Johnson. 

Nov^ 1**, James Pritchard, Jn'", of Derby, married to Rachel Warren of 

Bethany. 
Dec*' 5*1', Enoch Twitchel and Abiah Camp, both of Oxford, entered into 

the Marriage Covenant. 

Jan'". 3'i, Ebenezer Wooster and Ruth Hawkins, both of Oxford, entered 

into the Marriage Covenant. 
Feb*". 2*1, Reuben Sherwood of Ridgebury and Sarah Graves of Oxford 

Entered into the Marriage Covenant. 
Feb''. 17*1', Cap*. Zachariah Hawkins and Rachel Perry, married. 



CONGREGATIONAL GUURCIT-MAIUUAGES. 31 

March 3'\ Elijah Hawkins of Oxford and Anne Davis of Derby, married. 
April 20*"', Alexander Sperry & Eunice Wooster, married. 
May 22'\ Lemuel Ilinman & Mary Blackman, married. 
July 7"', John Holbrook, Jn', of Derby, ^<, Huldah Fox of Oxford, married. 
Aug»* 17*^, Ebenezer Plant of Derby & Esther Bassett of Oxford, married. 
Ocf 2*1, Elihu Bates & Hannah Andrus married. 
Dec"" 7"', Ebenezer Warner & Elizabeth Pritchard of Derby, married. 
Dec'' 21''*, Aaron Mallery of Southbury and Anne French of Derby, married. 

Jan''. 5*'', Hezekiah Wooden & Eunice Perkins of Derby, married. 
Jan'". 25*^1, Israel Baldwin & Elizabeth Hatch, both of North Guilford, mar. 
Aug^* 24"', Jonathan Lumm the 3'\ of Oxford, & Lydia Pritchard of Derby, 
Oct'- 22*1, Ichabod Dean & Elizabeth Twitchel, Married. [married. 

Nov'" 13th, Joseph Biggs of Oxford and Ann Oanfield of Derby, married. 
Dec"" 19th, Isaac Tomlinson & Mary Hawkins, married. 

Jan^ 2oth, Joseph Smith of Newbury and Keziah Murry of Oxford, married. 
June 19th, Tobias & Eachel, Negro Servants to Cap^ John Wooster, mar. 
June 23*\ David Johnson, Ju'', & Elisabeth Ilotchkiss, Married. 
Sept' 2(>th, Ephraim Andrus of Oxford and Mary Skeels of Southbury, then 

Married. 
Oct' 14:th, Joseph Tomlinson of Oxford and Elizabeth Hull of Derby, married 

Jan"" 3'', Ephraim Skeeles tO Sarah Baldwin of Southbury, Married. 

Feb''. 20th, John Chatiield of Oxford & Mary King of Southbury, married. 

June 30th, Jared Osborn of Oxford & Freelove Anne Mallery of Southbury. 

Septr 30th, Caleb Perry & Sarah Eaton, married. 

Octr I''* Roger, Negro, and Beck, Negro Wench, married. 

Novr 19th, John Wheeler & Sarah Johnson, both of Derby, married. 

June 4th, Samuel Chatfield of Oxford tO Eunice Perkins of Derby, Married. 
Augs* 5th, David Tharp of Judea & Elizabeth Tomlinson of Derby, Married. 
Angst 5th, Eli ChatHeld of Oxford & Lois Mallory of Southbury, Married. 
Deer 22'\ Justus Cande of Oxford t€' Eunice Norton of Judea, Married. 

Janr. 17th, Timothy Cande of Oxford t€* Esther Thomas, Married. 

Febr. 28th, Lemuel Smith and Hannah Bassit, Married. 

March 4th, Nathaniel Flowers & Susanna Steel, both of Derby, married. 

March 4th, Ashbel Steel of Derby & Eunice Thompson of Oxford, Married. 

March 4th, William Keeny & Melinde Steel, both of Derby, Married. 

March ISth, Joseph Bassit, Ju", of Derby, and Molly Hinman of Oxford, Mar- 

April 8th, Sherman Hatch and Sarah Bassit, Married. 



.'^2 OXFORD HISTORY. 

May 17th, Adinah Strong of Soutlibury and Anne Scoot of Salem, Married. 

May 29th, Isaac Chatfield and Sarah Whitmore, Married, 

Angst 19th, Justus Johnson of Southbury and Sarah Thomas of Derby, mar. 

Novr 7th, Samuel Hull, Jnr, of Derby and Charlotte Phelps of Simsbury, m. 

Novr 11th, Beman Hale and Hannah Davis of Derby, Married. 

Novr 11th, Nath" Johnson of Derby and Rebekah Parson of Oxford, married. 

July IGth, Reuben Chapman and Hannah Botsford of Derby, married. 

Angst 22'\ Abner Riggs of Oxford and Phebe Rowland of Redden, married. 

Septr 2Gth, Moses Riggs and Susanna Tucker, Married. 

Septr 28th, Gideon Chatfield and Betsy Jones, Married. 

Octr 22'i, Isaac Bunnel, Jnr, and Hannah Tyler, Married. 

Novr 9th, Joseph Fairchild of Oxford and Hannah Wheeler of Derby, mar. 

Deer 6th, Nehemiah Cande and Content Woodruff, Married. 

Febr 15th, Edmund Mallery of Southbury and Mable Johnson of Derby, mar. 

rebr25th, Silas Hawkins and Sarah Perry, Married. 

March 1st, Bears Tomlinson and Sarah Bassit of Great Hill, married. 

March 15th, Jehiel Iline and Elisabelh Johnson, Married. 

April 9th, Amos Tuttle and Rachel Jones, Married. 

May 24th, Thomas Kimberly of Woodbury and Army Hawkins of Oxford. 

Septr 6th, Abel Pierson and Hannah Fairchilds, married. 

Septr 9th, Noah Thomas and Mary Toles of Bethany, Married. 

Septr 30th, Peter Hawking and Sussa Dutand, Married. 

April 4th, Andrew Graham, Jnr, of Woodbury, and Sarah Smith of Derby. 
June 13th, Joseph Beach of Waterbury and Hannah Miles of Oxford, mar. 
June 17th, Eli Smith of New Milford and Huldah Merwin of Oxford, mar. 

.Tanr 9th, George Clark of Oxford and Lydia Osborn of Salem, Married. 

Janr 19th, Dr. Osee Dutton and Elizabeth Trowbridge, Married. 

Febr 5th, Jesse Meigs and Hannah Pritchard of Bethlehem, Married. 

March 6th, Nathan Tomlinson of Greathill and Zerviah Bassit of Oxford, m. 

March 10th, Joseph Osborn, 3'\ and Sarah Smith, Married. 

March 13th, Ebenezer Twitchel and Jerusha Finch', Married. 

March 2Gth, William Bunnel and Sarah Dorman, Married. 

April 17th, Joseph French of Ripton and Sarah Chatfield of Oxford, married 

April 30tli, Benjamin Bradley and Eunice Downs, Married. 

June 29th, Reuben Hiccock and Sarah Wheeler of Derby, Married. 

Novr. 24th, Samuel Tucker, Jnr. and Silence Moss Married. 

May 3d, Daniel Cande and Lidy Wilmott Married. 



MARRIAGES. 33 

Sepf 8*1', Timothy Johnson Jn^' of Oxford & Olive Adams of Salem, married 

Sept' 19*^5 Daniel Stark & Electy Loveland of Derby married. 

Oct>' 6*^, Abraham Canlield of Greathill & Mable Johnson of Derby,married. 

Oct'" 12*'', Phineas Johnson Jn'' & Lois Skeels married. 

Nov' 8^^, Elijah Durand & Anna DeLavan married. 

Nov 30"', Lewis Stancliff of South-britain & Mable Griffin of Oxford, mar. 

Dec' 2*1, Richard Pitt & Sarah Osborn of Salem married. 

Feb^' 16"', Nathaniel Pangborn & Sarah Wooden, married. 

March 9"', Bradford Steel Jn'" and Ruth Wheeler of Derby, married. 

March 10"', Jonathan Hinman & Betty Hinman of South britain, married. 

March 21**, Samuel Faulkner & Sarah Person, married. 

March 31^*, Luke Bunnel & Betty Bates, married. 

May 25*^, Joel Gilbert of Ripton & Patience Chatfield of Oxford, married. 

June 28*1', Samuel Buckingham & Ruth Fairchild, married. 

July 24*'', Obed Weebster of Litchfield & Betsey Lake of Oxford, married 

Aug^* 7*'', Nehemiah Durand & Ruth Jones, married. 

Aug^* 18*'', John Coe & Ruth Johnson of Derby, married. 

Sept' 20*'', Solomon Parker of Watertown & Huldah Flin of Oxford,raarried. 

Oct' 16*", Reuben Tucker of Derby & Tabitha Perry of Oxford, married. 

Nov' 3'', Simeon Stoddard of Woodbury «& Milly Thomas of Bethany, married. 

Nov' 24*11, Benj'" Hilton & Sarah Munson of Watertown, married. 

Dec' 7*'', Amos Fox & Betty Perry, married. 

Dec' 12*'', Zachariah Fairchild & Hannah Durand of Great Hill, married. 

Jany 1®*, Isaac Hawkins & Anne Smith, married. 

Feb^ 12*'', Dan. Chatfield & Elizabeth Wliitmore, married. 

Feby 12*'', Amos Dunning of Southbritain & Milo Perry of Oxford, married. 

March 7*'', Reuben Hawkins & Anna Wooster, married. 

March 30*'', Curtis Peet of Southbury & Mary Johnson of Oxford, married. 

July 19*'', Jedediah Munn Jn' and Molly Hubbard of Southbury, married. 

Oct' 1^*, Abel Wheeler of Derby & Eunice Riggs of Oxford, married. 

Nov' 22^1, Benjamin Bunnel & Mary Twitchel, married. 

Dec' 19*'', Uriah Morehouse of Fairfield :k Beulah Lewis of Oxford, married. 

Dec' 21'**, Luke Bunnel & Sarah Buckingham, married. 

Jany 17*'', John Smith & Lucy Parker, married. 

Feby 15*'', Daniel Roe Jn' of Long island & Nabby Tucker of Derby,married. 

April 11"', David Cande & Abigail Buckingham, married. 

Sep*' 2d, Abel Holbrook of Great hill & Hannah Clark of Oxford, married. 

Nov' 25*'', Amos Coe of Southbury & Elizabeth Burrel of Oxford, married. 

Dec' 26*'', Daniel Smith of Southbury & Anne Brownson of Oxford, married. 



34 OXFORD HISTOEY. 

JanJ" 31«t, Eben" Johnson Jn'" & Lois Pitcher, married. 

Feb^ 5*^, Nathaniel Wooster & Charity Plum, married. 

FebJ" 14, George Xorton & Kachel Bates of Eoxbury, married. 

June 2*^, Abel Smith of Great hill & Damaras Botsford, married. 

August 10*^, James Wentworth & Desire Durand, married. 160 

August 21^*, Miles Basset & Mariamne Ward, married. 

Ocf 9*1^, Russel Beebe, State of N. York & Esther Bristol of Oxford married. 

Oct^ 9"^, Issachar Norton of Washington & Esther Woodruff of Oxford, mar. 

Nov'" 2'!, Medad Keeny & Lidia Ranney of Derby, married. 

Nov 25«\ John Atleby & Elizabeth Barber. State N. York, married. 165 

Dec"- 25*11, Abel Waters of Oxford & Ruth Curtis of Stratford, married. 

Dec"" 3pt, Jethro Martain, negro, & Olive, Negro, married. 

Jan^ 21^*, David Smith & Abilena Beecher, married. 

JanJ" 21^*, Moses Cande and Sarah Woodruff, married. 

Jau^' 26*1^, Isaac Whitney and Betty Whitemore of Derby, married. No. 170 

March 26*1^, Moses Johnson and Clary Twitchel, married. 

April o^^, Daniel Hide and Eunice Beard, married. 

April 16^^, Charles and Lois Cande, married. 

July (j^^, Asa Osborn of Southbury and Sarah Hide of Oxford, married. 

Ocf 4*11, Ezra Johnson and Betty Tucker, married. 175 

Dec*" 30*1^, Nathan Buckingham Jn'" and Selena Lewis, married. 

Feby 18*11, Enoch Bristol of Oxford and Jean White of Southbury, married. 

April 29*11, Medad Cande and Betty Bristol, married. 

June 2*1, Roger Perkins and Betsey Cande, married, 

Sept^ 17*ii, Joel Perry and Elizabeth Riggs, married. 180 

Sepf 30*1', Gitieon Booth and Hannah Stonecliff of Southbury, married. 

Ocf 17*ii. Amos Fox and Jemima Flin, married. 

Jany 6*ii, Philo Riggs Bristol and Nabby Lyman, married. 
JanJ" 12*ii, Jehiel Peet of Oxford and Lois Manvil of Woodbury, married. 
March 16*ii, George Holmes of the State of N. York and Eunice French of 
Oxford, married. 185 

March 30*ii, Isaac Wooster and Mary Ann Perry, married. 
April 14*11, Daniel Fox and Elizabeth Smith, married. 

May 9*1', Phineas Johnson of Oxford and Sarah Terril of Salem, married. 
Oct"" 27*ii, Samuel Riggs and Charry Riggs, married. 

Jan^ 9*ii, Richard Freeman of Waterbury and Hannah Souars of Oxford, mar. 

Jan^ 12*ii, Abijah Chatfield and Hannah Reecher, married. 

March 15*1", Ephraim Judson of Huntington and Anne Lewis of Oxford, mar. 



MAllKIAGES. 35 

March 28"\ William Morriss & Elizabeth Thomas, married. 
Ocf 29*^, Ebenezer Buckingham, Jn''., & Olive Woodruff, married. 
Nov^ 20^^, Ebenezer Ford Bennet of Newtown & Anne French Beardslee of 
Oxford, married. 195 

Jan'" 1''*, John Riggs, 3*\ & Mary Beecher, married. 

Jan'" 16'^, Joseph Perkins & Sarah Cande, married. 

Jan'" 24*'', John Beecher & Polly Thomas, married. 

Feb'" 13*'', Cap* Joseph Osborn & M'^ Elizabeth Tomlinson, married. 

April 24*1', Winthrop Blagley of Southbury & Lucy Wooster of Oxford, mar. 

June 3^, Walker Wilmott & Millicent Hitchcock, married. 

June 29*1', Ezra Johnson & Betty Curtiss, married. 

Aug®* I''*, Philo Beecher & Marry Biggs, married. 

Sepf 4*'', Joseph Tuttle & Anna Perkins, married. 

Sept'" 18*'', Samuel Jones «& Esther Lyman, married. 205 

Ocf" 20*'', Abel Woodward of Watertown & Susanna Woodruff of Oxford, m. 

Oct" 27*1', Philemon Hinman of Oxford and Mary Finch of Farraingbury, m. 

Nov'" G*i', Eliphas Bradley of Southbury and Bettsey Perry of Oxford, mar. 

Nov*" 7*1', Lieut. Samuel Wheeler and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, married. 

Nov'" 12*1', Jonathan Law of Milford and Rebekah Davis of Oxford, married. 

Jan"" 27tb, Joseph Perry and Currents Kimberley, married. 

May P*, Isaac Hill and Elizabeth Ann Bunnel, married. 

June 21^*, John Salem Hide and Betsey Twichel, married. 

Sept' 4th, Enoch Johnson and Grace Leavenworth of Southbury, married. 

Nov'" 9th, David Riggs and Hannah Wheeler, married. 215 

Nov'" 30th, Aaron Brownsou of Southbury and Anne Ward of Derby, mar. 

Dec'" 25tb, Lewis Mynott and Anne Barnes, married. 

Jan'" 25tb, Zebulon Lines and Lois Andrus, married. 

Jan'" 28tli, Thomas Clark, Esq'., and M'"^ Hannah Curtiss, married. 

May 5th, Edmund Austin of Waterbury and Ranna Wheeler of Derby, mar. 

May 10th, Isaac Riggs and Sarah Wheeler, married. 

May 31^*, Billy Carpenter or Derby and Sally Gilchrist of Woodbury, mar. 

June 5th, Lyman Smith and Milly Hitchcock, married. 

June 26th, Moses VYlieeler and Betsey Ann Loveland, married. 

June 30th, Gideon Perry and Comfort Sherwood, married. 225 

July 30th, Josiah Smith and Betty Holbrook, both of Derby, married. 

August 27th, Amos Wheeler and Nabby Holbrook, both of Derby, married. 

Sept'" 20th, Jonathan L. Nickels and Lois Riggs, married. 

Oct'" 25th, Lemuel Beardsley and Mercy Perry, married. 

Nov'" 5th, Caleb Tomlinson and Nabby Fairchild, married. 230 

Nov^ 22-^ Agur Curtiss of Huntington and Polly Buckingham of Oxford, m. 



36 OXFOED HISTORY. 

Dec*' 13th, Dorman Leavenworth and Lucy Tucker, married. 

Jan*" 31"*, John Fairchild and Mary Lyman, married. 

March 3'\ Gideon Judson of Roxbury and Betsey Durand of Oxford, mar. 

April 10th, Ethiel Lounsbury and Betsey Riggs, married. 

April 25th, Moses Osborn of Salem and Comfort Cande of Oxford, married. 

May 19tb, Josiah Tucker and Polly Moore, married. 

June 2**, Lewis Peirson and Esther Smith, married. 

June 2*^, John Hinman and Abigail Pood, married. 240 

Nov' 27th, Gideon Paton of Newtown and Hannah Harger of Oxford, mar. 

Dec'^' 8th, David Wooden and Sarah Wooster, married. 

Dec'' 22"^, Cyrus Cande and Rebekah Mun, married. 

Jan' 1^*, Joel Buckingham & Anne Bristol, married. 

Jan'" 19*'', Truman Baldwin of Salem & Anne Hurlbut of Roxbury, married. 

Jan'' 22*1 Noah R. Lyman & Phebe Porter, married. 

April 26, George Steel & Esther Buckingham, married. 

July 7, Andrew Bates & Anne Perry, married. 

Dcm"- 31«t, SAMUEL M. KEE and ELECTE ANDRUS, married. 

Frby 4"', '98, Silas Foster of Gal way and Patty Woodruff of Oxford, married. 
Feby 22"'!, Miles Loveland & Betsey Ann Twitchell, married. 
April 18*'', Zachariah Hawkins, Jn'', & Sally Mallory, married. 
June 12*'', Josiah Brownson & Mary Williams of Midlebury, married. 
Novem^'' *''5, John Buckingham & Esther Osborne,' married. 

Feb'' 27*'', Levi Riggs & Nancy Washburn, married. 255 

Nov 27*'', John Smith of Derby & Molly Bristol of Oxford, married. 
May 2"'', Abner Hinman, Southbury, and Polly Beardsley of Oxford, married 
June 9, Arad Skeels & Sarah Lake, married. 

IHOO. 
Jan'' 5*'', David Dickernian & Mable Kelly, married. 

Jan'' 30*", Sam" Riggs, 2'"^, & Elizabeth Rigby, married. 260 

August 27*'', Andrew Hik & Sarah Anne Chatfield, married. 

Janu''-^ 18, Jabez Prindle of Xewton & Susanna Wooster of Oxford, married. 

Jan''y 22'', Samuel Twichel & Lucy Hinman, married. 

May 20*", Philo Sanford & Charry Whelor, married. 

May 27*", Isaac Clark and TTuldah Griffin, married. 265 

Novem'' 12, Timothy Cande and Lusane Twichel, married. 

Novm'"' 22, James Wheeler, 3'*, and Phebe Sanford, married. 

Dec" 9, Phineas Turrele of Bethany and Ruth Wooster of Oxford, married. 

Decemb'' 24, David Wooster of Oxford and Joana Stilson of Newtown, mar. 



MAKFJAGES. 37 

Jan'' 26*'', Joseph Blake and Louisa Osborn, married. 270 

Jan'' 27*'', Leverit Lines and Sally Blake, married. 

Feb'' 4"^, Josiah Swift of Derby and Esther Twitchell of Oxford, married. 

Feb^' 18*", Clark Bunnel of Oxford and Elinor Rodes of Milford, married. 

Feh'' 24*'^, Isaac Addison Bischo and Sarah Davis, married. 

April 8*'', Ebenezer Anson Ri,^;gs and Sebra Holbrook, married. 275 

Nov'' 16*'', John Limberner and Fanny Marting, married. 

Jan'' 12*'', Timothy Hitchcock of Woodbridge and Urania Twitchell of Oxford. 
Jan'" 24*'', John C. Hull and Hannah Chatfield, married. 
Jnne 23^', Samuel A. Buckingham of Oxford andMary Campof Lincolm, ra. 
Aug«* 3'', Caleb Cande, Jn'', and Lucina Twitchel, married. No. 280 

Oct^' 6*'', Henry Broomfield of Cheshire and Rebekah Law of Oxford, married. 
Ocf Sl'^*, Oliver Buckingham of Bethany and Hester Sanford of Oxford, m. 
Nov'' 20*'', Jeremy Hull Twitchel and Anne Cande, married. 
Nov'" 23'* Joel Finch and Grace Twitchel, married. 

Jan^ 25*'', Elias Scott and Lucinda Riggs, married. 285 

March 28*'', Salmon Griffin and Betsey Lewis, married. 

Ocf^ 24*'', Ebenezer Humberfield and Anne Riggs, married. 

Nov'" 14*'', Gideon Riggs and Susan Pitcher, married. 

Nov'" 21^*, Edward Moss of Derby and Lois Twitchell of Oxford, married. 

isoe. 

Jan'" 29*", Hiram Osborn and Sally Finch, married. 290 

March 12th, Rosewell Cande and Jury Riggs, married. 
May 18th, Richard Baker of Bridgeport and Hannah Kelley of Oxford, mar. 
No"^"" 1, Isaac Chatfield, J'"', and Sabria Beebee, married. 

Dec. 31, Agur Miner of Southbury to Polly Bassett of Oxford. 

Feb. 5, Isaac Treat to Eleanor Stiles. 
March 11, Bennet Pangman to Susan Clark. 

Samuel Mallery to Lucretia Davis. 
25, Ransom Clark Lord of New Haven toCharitySperry of Woodbridge. 

Parsons of Derby to Merib Lyman of Oxford. 

Ap. 9, Wheeler Lewis to Marian Spencer. 

July 15, M'^. Nath®' G. Huntington of Hartford, candidate for the ministry, 

to Elizabeth Tucker of Woodbridge. 
Nov. 29, Havey Smith Boothe of N. Stratford. 

Dec. 31, Issac Towner to Eunice Johnson. 



38 OXFORD HISTORY. 

ISll. 

April 22, Parley Bugbee of Woodstock to Anne Wilmot of Oxford. 
May 8, Nathan Harris of Southbury to Maria Bristol of Oxford. 

16, Cyrns Hawkins to Olive Towner. 
Oct. 6, George Bennett of Huntington to Sally Beardsley of Oxford. 

26, Charles Tomlinson to Esther Cande. 
'Nor. 1, Bowers Johnson to Lotta Trumbull. 
Nov. 19, Truman Strong to Nancy Garret. 

Nov. 24, Beers of Trumbul to Esther Lewis of Oxford. 

Dec. 15, Chauncey Cooper to Anna Cande. 

ISIS. 

March 9, Burr Nash of Fairfield to Polly Oatraan. 

22, Peck of Newtown to Mary Griffin. 

April 5, Lyman Baldwin of Southbury to Nancy Cande. 

30, Abial Nichols to Lucina Hinman. 
May Joseph Deforest of Woodbury to Leete Hull. 
May 17, Isaac Smith to Sarah Bristol. 
Dec. 9, Eldad Scott of Salem to Eunice Scott. 

James Spencer of Oxford to Eunice Pritchard of Derby. 

1S14. 

Feb. 1, Bennet Hitchcock to Ansa Bradley. 

Ransom Mallory and Lucy Cande. 

Harvey Tyler & Eunice Riggs. 
John P. Andrus to Eunice Cande. 



An Account of those y* entred in to y*' Marriage Covenant with eacli other, 

taken from y^ Files of y'^ Rev^^. W. Lyman, 
April 10, 1754, Benjamin Fox and Esther Chatfield entred into y*" Marriage 

Covenant. 
May 22, 1749, Richard Smith & Rachel Wilmot entred in to y'' Marriage 

Covenant. 
Jan"' 1749-50, Isaac Tomlinson & Sibilla Russell entred in to y'' Marriage 

Covenant. 
Feb'" 12, 1751-2, Elisha Wheler & Hannah Perry entred into the Marriage 

Covenant. 
Jan^ 29, 1751-2, Jesse Wheler and Elizabeth Hull entred into y'' Marriage 

Covenant. 
April 22, 174G, Andrew Minroe of Branford and Elizabeth Baiar of Darby 

entred into y® Marriage Covenant. 
April 22, 1746, Timothy Washband of Darby and Hannah Curtis of Stratford 

entred into y^ Marriage Covenant. , 



% 



MARRIAGES. 39 

Jan'' 15, 1747-8, Isaac Trowbridge and Judath Hale entred in to y*" Marriage 

Covenant. 
Aug^* 29, 1759, Reuben Hail and Diantha Ward entred into y« Marriage 

Covenant. 
June 13, 1757, John Riggs, Jun"', and Abigail Peet entred into y° Marriage 

Covenant. 
Ocf 24, 1 754, Stephen Hull and Jane Sperry entred into y" Marriage 

Covenant. 
Feb^ 19, 1755, David Zunson of Southbury and Sarah Trowbridge of Oxford 

entred into y*' Marriage Covenant. 
Oct"' 1, 1752, Benjamin Bunnel and Ruth Smith entred into y" Marriage 

Covenant with each other. 
Feb'' 23, 1757, Abial Fairchild , Jun'" and Hannah Chatfield entred into y° 

Marriage Covenant. 
Feb'' 23, 1757, Joseph Fairchild and Huldah Porter entered into y*' Marriage 

Covenant. 
Aug^t 14, 1753, Caleb Perry and Rachel Smith entred into y'" Marriage 

Covenant. 
June 20, 1747, John Durand and Sarah Chatfield entred into y'" Marriage 

Covenant. 
April 1, 1750, John Starr of Danbury and Auis Twitchel entred in to y*' 

Marriage Covenant. 
June 14, 1754, Peter Wooster and Martlia Smith entred into y'' Marriage 

Covenant. 
Augst 21, 1753, Jose|)h Smith and Hannah Mallery entred y*" Marriage 

Covenant. 
March 15, 1759, John Smith of Darby and Abigail Gunn of Waterbury 

entred into y® Marriage Covenant. 
June 30, 1747, Pero and Phylis, Negroes, Servants to James Wheler, entred 

into y*^ Marriage Couenant. 
Sept^- 30, 1700, Gideon Tuttle and Mary Stiles, both of Woodbury, entered 

into the Marriage Covenant. 
Dec^r 9^'', 1701, Naboth Candee and Esther Trowbridge entred into y Mar- 
riage Covenant. 
June 14, 1750, Blisha Lewis and Tamar Hale entred into the Marriage 

Covenant. 
Feb"" 14, 1759, John Manvil & Elizabeth Weede entred y'' Marriage Covenant. 
March 0, 1700, Nathan Buckingham and Esther Osborn entred into y*^ Mar- 
riage Covenant. 

A True Coppy. Attest : David Brownson, Pastor. 

Aug^t 7, 1701, Richard Smith & Anne Sylbe, Married. 
Dec'' 30, 1705, Alexander Johnson & Hannah Riggs, Married. 
Dec 30, 1755, Reuben Atwater of Cheshire and Mary Russel, married. 



BAniSMS. « 



BAPTISMS. 

Continued from page 25. 

June 7, Sheldon, son to William Morris & Betsey his Wife. 
July 9, Jeremiah, son to Ruth, Wife of Nehemiah Durand. 
July 9, Daniel, son to Elizabeth, Wife of Dan Chatfiekl. 
July 26, John Harpiu, sou to John Riggs, Jnr., & Mary his Wife. 
August 9, Jason, son to Truman Stoddard & Sarah his Wife. 715 

August 30, Sina, Daughter to Cyrus Candee & Rebecca his Wife. 
August 30, Polly Maria, Daughter to David Beecher & Polly his Wife. 
Septem^" 13, Larapson, son to Molly, Wife to John Smith. 
October 18, Elizabeth & Anne, Twin Daughters to Sam" Riggs & Charry 
his Wife. 720 

:N'ov'"'»" 8, Harry, son to Sarah, Wife to Jeremiah M. Kelly. 
ISTove'"'" 8, Ira, son to Philo Beecher »& Mary his Wife. 
Dec'"^' C, Daniel, son to Naboth Orsbon & Susa his Wife. 

Jan»' 17*1', Caroline, Dau*'' to Chester Smith & Wife . 

Feb'- 5"', Sally, Dau*'' to Sam" A. Buckingham & Esther his Wife 725 

Feb"- 25*^, Minerva, Dau*'" to Joseph Riggs & Wife. 

March 25"', Betsey, Dau*' to Nathan Buckingham, Jn'", & Selina his Wife. 

April 13"', David, Son to Joel Perry & Betty his Wife. 

April 16"', Edmun, Son to Ethial Lounsbury & Betsey his Wife. 

April 25, Harriet, Daughter to Enoch Bristol «& Sally his Wife. 

April 25, Eliza, Daughter to Lemuel Beardsley & Mercy his Wife. 

April 25, Nathan, son to George Steel & Esther his Wife. 

April 25, Augustus, son to David Bunnell oc Polly his Wife. 

April 27"', Caroline, Dan"' to Moses Cande & Sarah his Wife 

Sally, ) 
May 7"', Betsey, > Daughters to Thomas Leavenworth, 

Minerva, ) 
May 9"', Roxa, Dan" to Cap^ Job Cande & Sarah his Wife. 
June 9"', Polly, Dau" to Truman Bristol & Betsey his Wife. 
June 27"^, Caroline, Dau"' to W^alker Wilmott & Millicent his Wife. 
Aug«* 1«*, Minerva, Dau" to David Machine & Sally his Wife. 



42 OXFORD HISTORY. 

Aug«* 23'^, Harriet, Dau*'' to David Smith, Jn^, & Abilena his Wife. 
Sepf 5*^, Peerlus, Son to Timothy Johnson. 

/^Truman, 
-vr 1- \ Lois, — Lanson, 
4th < Alvin, — Children to Treat Loveland & Betty his Wife. 
' / Daniel, 
C^ Horace, 

Chester, Son to Isaac Briggs & Sarah his Wife. 
Dec^ 26"', Anne, Dau*'" to Nancy, Wife of Enoch Perkins. 

Jan'- 9, S-^^^^^'i ] Son & Dau*^' to Cloe, Wife to Philo Thomas. 
' Merando, ) ' 

Jan^- L8"', Lyman, Son to Abel Waters & Wife. 

Jan'' 2G, ^ Simeon, ^ 

1 Betsey, ( Sons & Daughters to Cap*. Timothy Wheeler and 

\ Hannah, & ? Hannah his Wife. 

( Nathan, ) 
FeV V\ Philo Burnt, Son to Philo R. Bristol & Nabby his Wife. 
Feb"" Q^^, Lucinda, Daut' to Timothy Cande. 

March 3% Zebulon Marshal, Son to Zebulon Lines & Lois his Wife. 
March Gth, Thirza, Daut'' to Elijah Treat & Esther his Wife. 
March 7*'', Caroline, Daut^' to Elijah Harger. 
May 15*^, Lyman, Son to John Fairchild & Mary his Wife. 
May 22^ Eliot, Son to W'". Morris & Betsey his Wife. 
May 22'\ Samuel, Son to Caleb Tomlinson & Nabby his Wife. 
May 22'!, Jane, Daut'' to David Beecher & Polly his Wife. 
June 12*'^, Horace, Son to Sam" Buckingham. 
Augs*^ 22'^, Harpin, Son to Miles Lovehind & Anne his Wife. 
Sepf 4*1', Rusha Marthea, Dauf to Uri Scott & Esther his Wife. 
Sept'' 4*'', Pierpoiot, Son to Sam" Briggs & Charry his Wife. 
Sept'' 7*'', Garwood, Son to Kezia, Wife to John Bassit, Jn^ 
Oct'' 19"', Ebenezer, Son to Eben^'' Fairchild & Eunice his Wife, 
Dec'' 21^*, Isaiah, Son to W'". Bunnel, presented & dedicated by his Gran- 
father, Isaac Bunnel. 

Jan'' 15*1', Clary, Dau*'' to Truman Stoddard & Sarah his Wife. 

Feb''3'i, Julia Ann, Daugh*'' to Nathan Buckingham, Jn'., & Selena his Wife. 

March 9*i', Justus, Son to Timothy Cande. 

Mirch 18*'', Aurin, Son to Daniel Cande & Lydia his Wife. 

March 18*'', Meritt, Son to Joseph Riggs & Wife. 

March 20*'', Alecta, Dau*'' to Naboth Osborn & Susa his Wife. 

May 13*1', Hanford, Son to Treat Loveland & Betty his Wife. 

May 13, Lucinda, Dant' to George Steel & Esther his Wife. 

May 22'i, Wales Woodward Austin, Son to Moses Cande «& Sarah his Wife. 



MARRIAGES. 43 

May 22*^, Hariot, Dan*'- to Joel Perry & Betty his Wife. 

June 17"', Mehetable, Dau*'' to Lemuel Beardsley & Mercy his Wife. 

June 24, David, Son to Ethiel Lounsbury & Betsey his Wife. 

July 29*'', Polly Augusta, Dau*'' to Cyrus Cande & Rebekah his Wife. 

August 2G*'', Sylvania, Dau*' to Truman Bristol & Wife. 

Sepf 16*1', Lucinda, Dau*"- to John Riggs & Mary his Wife. 

Sepf 16"'-, Garry, Son to Chester Smith & Keziah his Wife. 

Sepf^ 19*", Alfred, Son to Elijah Harger. 

Sept^ 23'\ Emmeliue, Daug*'' to Enoch Bristol. 

Dec. 2*^, Marcia, Daug*'" to Zebulon Lines & Lois his Wife. 

DeC" 23*1, Mary, Daugh*'' to Luke Bunnel & Sarah his Wife. 

Dec*' 30*1', JqIius, Son, & Junia, Daug*'', Twins, to Samuel Buckingham. 

Dec 30*1', Oyntha. Dan*' to Eben^'' Buckingham & Olive his Wife. 

Jan'" 13*1', Lucey, Dau*'' to Dorman Leavenworth & Lucy his Wife. 
Jan*- 26*1', p^tty, Dauf to Timothy Johnson. 
April 7*1', Caroline, Dau*' to Ruth, Wife of Lewis Waklee. 
May 12*1', j„ij.^ ^^^^ Dau*'' to Miles Loveland & Anne his Wife. 
June 23^ Jason, Son to W". Morriss & Betsey his Wife. 
June 23*1, Charlotte, Dau*'' to Nancy, wife of Enoch Perkins. 
July 2P*, Charry, Dau*'" to Sam" Riggs & Charry his Wife. 
July 28*1', Stiles, Son to John Fairchild & Mary his Wife. 
Ocf 6*11, Selena, Daut'" to Nathan Buckingham, Jn'", & Selena his Wife. 
Nov'" 12*1', Hepzibah, Dau*' to Cyrus Perry, baptized on its Grandfather, 
(jideon Perrv's, Right. 

Jan'" 28*1', Philo, Son to Truman Stoddard & Wife. 

Feb'" 2*1, Patty, Daughter to Elijah Treat and Esther his Wife. 

June IS*!", Nancy, Dau*'" to Ebenezer Buckingham and Olive his Wife. 

July 8*1', Daniel, Son to Mable, Wife to Jeremiah M. Kelley. 

Aug^* 4*1', Timothy, Son to Timithoy Johnson. 

Augs* 4th^ Eunice Genett, Daut'" to Timothy Cande. 

Aug^* 18*1', Juiiia, Dau'" to Joseph Riggs. 

Aug''* 31®*, Edmond, Son to Ethiel Lounsbury. 

Sept'" 14*1', Polly Caroline. Daugh*'" to Chester Smith. 

Oct'" 28, Patty Genett, Daughter to Moses Candee and Sarah his Wife. 

Oct' 28, Nathan, Son to Joel Perry and Betty his wife. 

July 16, Clark Smith, Son of Mr. George Steele. 

August 13, Betsy, William and Harry, children of Sara^i Heaton. 

October 1st, Lucinda, daughter of Elias Scott. 

8, James Andrew, son of S. A. Buckingham. 



44 OXFORD HISTORY. 

Nov. 5, A child of Sam'l Buckingham. 
Dec. 24, Mary, daughter of Wakelee. 

ISIO. 

April 2G, Abel, Son of Truman Bristol. 

Nov. 25, Atwater, sou of Elijah Treat. 

Eunice Agusta, daughter of Isaiah Cande. 

William Austin, ) n /• t\t tth r -r> i • i 
Wales Woodruff, } S<>«s of Mr. Eb^ Buckmgham. 

May 5, Harriet Sophia, daughter of Rev'^ N. Freeman. 
June 23, Silas Gunn, Grandson of M''. Uri Scott. 
July 7, Esther Maria, daughter of M'". George Steele. 
Aug. 25, Asahel Lewis, son of Mr. Elias Scott. 
Sept. 8, Elizabeth Maria, Daughter of Walker Wilmot. 

Mary Elizabeth, Daughter of D^ N. Stone. 
Oct. 6, Polly, daughter of Joseph Riggs. 

ISIS, 

Jan'" 6, Amelia Lucretia, Daughter of W™ Morris. 
Feb. 16, Burnet Dwight, son of Timo Cande. 
April 23, Mary, daughter of Sam'l A. Buckingham. 

iedut'a, } C™-" «f Mun. 

1S13. 

April 24, John Robinson, Son of Rv'^ N. Freeman. 
Eunice, Daughter of D"^. Noah Stone. 



DEATHS. . 4^"^ 



DEATHS. 

April 6^^, Abigail, Daughter to Lieu*. Sam'^ Wheler, in y® 20 or 21^* year of 

her Age. 
Augs* 2, Agnes, Daughter to Lieu*. Sam^' Wheeler, Died in y'' 10^'' year of 

her Age. 
Sept'' 1, Ruth, Wife to Nathan Fairchild, Died in y® 21«t year of her Age. 

30, Yelverton Perrey, died in y*' 78*'' Year of his Age. 
Nov'" 9*'', Sarah, Wife to Isaac Nichols, died in y*' 27*'^ Year of her Age. r> 
Dec"^ 2^, A Child of Yelverton Perrey, died aged 2 Days. 

Jan'' 3*', Ruth, Daughter to Nathan Fairchild, died aged 4 Months. 

Feb'' 14*^^, Mehitabeel Bunnel, Widow to Benjamin Bunnel, Deceased, died 

in y" 59*'' or 60*'' year of her Age. 
March 26, Hannah, Wife to Isaac Northrop, died in y^ 38*'' Year of her Age. 
July 11*'', Rachel, Wife to Yelverton Perry, died in y** 25*'' Year of her Age. 

Jan'' 10*'', Sybillia, Daughter to Isaac Trowbridge, Jn', died in y^' 11*'' Year 

of her Age. 
May 12*'', Pel, A Negro Boy, and Servant to David Johnson, died in the 5*'' 

Year of his Age. 
May 22<i, Esther, Wife to David Johnson, died in y^ 30*'' year of her Age. 

Jan'' 10*''. An Inftmt Child to Joshua Perry, died aged Weeks. 

Jan'" 27*^, Ruth, Wife to Isaac Trowbridge, died in y'' 77th Year of her Age. 

Sepf 11*'', Lois Tonilinson, died in y® 87*'' Year of her Age. 

Ocf 14*'', David Smith, died in y*^ 40*'' Year of his Age. 

Dec« 17*'', David, Son to Gad BristoU, died in y" 2'^ Year of his Age. 

Dec"^ 22'!, Lydia, Wife to William Willmot, died in y^ 63 Year of her Age. 

April 2% Susanua, Wife to Lieu*. Thom« Clark, died in y" 39*" Year of 
her Age. 20 

April 9*", Anna, Wife to Josiah Perry, died in the 62*' Year of her Age. 
June 5th, Abigail, Daughter to Daniel Osborn, died in y*^ 16th Yearof her Age. 
Dec' 1st, John Smith, dyed in y'^ 75th Year of his Age. 



46 OXFOED HISTORY. 

Feb'" 16tli, Samuel, Son to Jeremiah Riggs, died aged 4 Weeks. 

March 21, Esther, Wife to Capt. Joseph Osborn, died iu y*' 51st Year of 

her Age. 25 

March 29th, Hannah, Wife to Isaac Trowbridge, died in y" 61st Year of 

her Age. 
Sepf 9th, Hannah, Daughter to John Holebrook, died aged 8 Days. 

Jan^ 19th, David, Son to David Pierson, dieH aged 2 Months. 
Feb' 4th, An Infant Child to David Graves, died aged 4 Days. 

Jan' 13th, Zadock Wooster, died in the SS** Year of his Age. 30 

Feb'' 20th, Gideon, Son to Gideon Tucker, died in the 4th Month of its Age. 
April 0th, Ebenezer, Son to Sam" Hitchcock, died in the 18th Month of his Age. 

May 21st, Huldah, Negro Servant to Decon Eben^^'" Riggs, died in the 9th 

[month of her Age. 
June 16th, Jabez Riggs, died aged 28, 

Ausst 18th, Nathan, Son to Gideon Tuttle, died aged 18 months. 35 

Dec'' 6th, James, Son to Gershoni Lake, died in the 3*^ Year of its Age. 

Jan'' Jenne, Negro Servant, Child to David Johnson, 21st year. 

March 7th, John Durand, died in the 74th Year of his Age. 

May 18th, Annah, Wife to Moses Sperry, died aged 62. 

May 17th, Naomi, Wife to Lieut. J. Basset, died aged 48. 40 

May 27*'', Hannah, Wife to Timothy Russel, Esq'", died aged 76. 

June 2«i, Jonathan Griffin, died aged 82. 

July 11*'', Anna, Daughter to Caleb Cande, Jn'", died in the 3'^ Year of 

her Age. 
Aug«* 19*'', Mary, Wife to Cap*. Zacli'' Hawkins, died in the 54*'' Year of 

her Age. 

Feb'" 27*'', An Infant Child to Nathan French died. 45 

April 16*'', Widow Merriam Washburn, died aged 70 Years. 

May 28*'', Philemon, Son to Abraham Beecher, died aged 5 Years. 

June 27*'', Gideon, son to Lieu*. Sam" Wheler, died aged 25 Years. 

Aug«* 21»*, Timothy Russel, Esq'', died Aged 79. 

Sepf 17*'', An infant Child to Jeremiah Johnson died. 50 

Dec'" 5*'', An Infant Child of Nathan Buckingham. 

DeC^ 12"', An Infant Child of Elijah Hawkins. 

Jan'" 15*'', John, son to Ezra Foot, aged 10 Days. 

Jan' 16th, Jonathan, Son to Phineus Johnson, aged 23 Years. 



BAPTISMS. 47 

April 5th, Betty Davis, Wife to Benj'"" Davis, died aged 31 Years. No. 55 
June 3'\ Mary Lyman, Daughter to the Kev*^ M^ Lyman, deceas'^, died aged 

17 years. 

June 17th, Elizabeth, Daughter to Sam" Hitchcock, died aged 22 Years. 

Feb^" 22*1, Sarah, Wife to Joseph Tomlinson, died Aged 5C Years. 

Sept' 8th, Ebenezer, Son to Israel Trowbridge, died aged 13 Years. 

Sepf^ 16th, Samuel Wooster, died Aged 72 Years. GO 

Sept^ 17th, Anna, Daughter to Israel Trowbridge, died Aged 11 Years. 

Septr 19th, Sarah, Daughter to Israel Trowbridge, died Aged 15 Years. 

Septr 30th, Hannah, Wife to Jeremiah Durand, died Aged 25 Years. 

Oct'" 9th, Sarah, Daughter to Jeremiah Durand, died Aged 3 Years. 

Oct'" 10th, James, Son to James Perry, died Aged 9 Years. 65 

Oct'' 11th, Lucy, Daughter to James Perry, died Aged 13 Years, 

Oct'" 19th, John, Son to Abiel Fairchild, died Septr 12th, in the Army, Aged 

18 Years. 

Oct^ 20th, Caleb Cande, died Aged 54 Years. 

Oct'" 21st, Esther, Daughter to Lieut. Dan" Chatfield, died Aged 7 Years. 
Oct'" 30th, Mary, Daughter to Oliver Chatfield, died aged 2 Years. 70 

Oct'" 31st, Ens" Edward Riggs, died Oct. 4th, in the Army, Aged 39 Years. 
Novr 18th, Martha, Daughter to the Rev<i D. Brownson, died Aged 6 Years. 
Novr 27th, Polly, Daughter to the Rev'^ D. Brownson, died Aged 4 Years. 
Novr 29th, David, Son to the Rev'^ D. Brownson, died Aged 10 Years. 
Deer 6th, Amos, Son to Richard Smith, died Aged 5 Years. 75 

Deer 24th, Asa, Son to Ebenezer Johnson, died aged 21 years, in captivity 
at IST. York. 

Janr 31st' Mary, Daughter to Wil'" Wooden, died aged 24 Years. 
Febr 7th, Polly, Daughter to Joseph Wooster, died aged 3 Years. 
March 25th, Elizabeth, Wife to Joseph Smith, died aged 70 Years. 
April 25th, Eunice Perkins, died Aged 27 Years. 80 

May 9th, David, Son to Israel Trowbridge, died Aged 22 Years. 
July 17th, Anne, Wife to Sam" Chatfield, died aged 68 Years. 
July 26tli, David, Son to Elisha Grifiln, died aged 9 Years. 
Augst 6th, Phebe, Wife to David Johnson, died aged 46 Years. 
Angst 12th, Nathan, Son to Nathan Fairchild, died aged 11 Years. 85 

Augst 13th, Nabey, Daughter to Nathan Fairchild, aged 7 Years. 
Augst 14th, David Johnson, Jnr, died aged 21 Years. 
Augst 17th, Lois, Daughter to Nathan Fairchild, died aged 5 years. 
Septr 19th, Zerviah, Daughter to John Durand, Deceased, died aged 20 
Years. 90 

Janr 15th, David, Son to Joseph Wooster, died aged 3 Years. No. 90 



48 OXFOED HISTORY. 

March 17th, Ebenezer Perry, died aged 37 Years. 

April 2*^, John Tdwner, died Aged, as is supposed, 9G Years. 

May Gth, Hannah, Daughter to Gideon Perry, died aged one Year, 

Deer 28th, David Johnson, died Aged . 

March 25th, Esther, Daughter to Naboth Cande, died aged 11 Years. No. 95 
August 12th, Justus, Son to Justus Bristol!, died Aged 4 Years. 

March 8th, Sally, Dautr to Sherman Hatch, died in Infancy. 
Octr 26th, Joseph Smith, Died Aged 84 Years. 
Novr 12th, Abner Johnson, died Aged 72 Years. 

May Gth, Anne, Wife of Richard Smith, died. 100 

August 10th, Huldah, Dautr to Naboth Cande, died aged 20 Years. 
Septr 23^, Hannah, Wife to Jeremiah Johnson, died. 

April 16th, Lois Riggs, Widow to Edward Riggs, died. 

April 17th, Robart Wheeler, died Aged 35. 

Deer 3*^, Lucy, Daughter to Joseph Wooster, died aged One Year. 105 

Janr 4th, An Infant Child to Ephraim Andrus, died. 

July 1st, Asenath, Wife to Amos Hine, died. 
Oct 30th, Naboth Cande, died. 

March Gth, Cyrus, Son to John Hawkins, died. 

May 17th, Samuel Chatfield, died. 110 

June 4th, Deacon Ebenezer Riggs, died. 

June 12th, Rachel, Wife to Dec" Ebenezer Rigg&, deceased, died. 

June 16th, Dinah, Wife to David Cande, died. 

July Gth, An Infant Child to Benj'" Bradley, died. 

July 18th, An Infant Child to Dan" Cande, died. 115 

Angst 12th, Esther, Wife to Lieut. David Woodruft', died. 

Augst 14th, Abiel Fairchild, Senr, died. 

Jan'" 3^j Deborah, Wife to David Fabrique, died. 

Feb^ 25"', M". Anne Brownson, Consort to the Rev'\ David Brownson, died. 

April 1^', Betty, Wife to Luke Bunnel, died. 

July 26*^, Rachel, Wife to Cap*. Zachariah Hawkins, died. 

Aug^* 3'\ Lewis, Son to John Bassit, Jn', died. 

Dec'- 3V\ David Woodruft' Died. 125 



DEATHS. 49 

Jan'^ 15*^, Clark, Son to David Woodruff deceased, died. 

Jan"^ 25*^, David, Son to David Woodruff deceased, died. 

April 15*1^, An Infant Child to John Hawkins died. 

July 12*1', Sarah, Dau*^ to Elijah Smith, died. 

July 23*1, Lucy, Dau*'' to Amos Fox, died. 130 

Sepf 15t>^, Micajah, Son to Gideon Perry, died. 

Nov'' 23*1, Sarah, Wife to John Durand, Sen'', deceased, died. 

Jan"" 17"', An infant Child to Jared Osborn died. 

Feb"" 13*1', Sarah, Daut' to Jeremiah Mather Kelly, died. 

March 4*i', An Infiiut Child to David Tomlinson died. 135 

March 4*'', A Child to Ephraiiu Andrus died. 

March 11"', Lucinda, Daut' to Ephraim Andrus, died. 

April 11"', Mary, Wife to Phineas Johnson, died. 

May IG*^, Betty, Wife to Amos Fox, died. 

May IG"', Ruth, Widow to Robert Wheeler deceased, died. 140 

June 30"', Oliver Chatfield died. 

March 25*^, Leveritt, infant Sou to Joseph Osborn, Jn'', died. 

April 13'^, Pero, Negro, died. 

July 2'\ Mary Perkins, Widow to Roger Perkins Deces**, died. 

Sepf 24*1', jg.^.ig Beecher died. 145 

Nov'' 5*1', Wife to Jonathan Griffin, died. 

Nov'' 6*1', Abijah Hide, Jn'', died. 

ITOO. 
March 1-^*, Lois, Widow to Caleb Cande, Deceased, died. 
March 27*i', A Child to Elijah Hawkius died. 

March 29*i', Betty, Wife to Ezra Johnson, died. 150 

March 31^*, Beers Perry drowned. 
May 1^*, Polly, Dan*'' to Olive Perry, died. 
May 6*1', Eunice, Wife to Jared Buckingham, died. 
May 9*1', Leraan, Son to Eleazer Sperry, died. 

May 13*", Hannah, Wife to Gideon Perry, died. 15£ 

June 9*", Eunice, Dau*'" to Nathan Davis, died. 
July 14*1', Qiiye, Dau*"^ to James Perry, died. 
August 21®*, Asa, Son to Gideon Cande, died. 
Sepf 17*'', Anne, Widdow to Sam" Wooster deceased, died. 
Nov' 6*1', Noah Russel Lyman, Son to N. R. Lyman, died. 16<) 

Nov' 30*1', Joseph Townor died. 
Dec"" 31**, Josiah Perry died. 

March 19, Joseph Riggs died. 

April 4"', A Child to Elijah Hawkins died. 



50 OXFORD HISTORY. 

March SO^i^, Lucy, Dau*'' to Xoah Tomlinson, died. 165 

April 26^'^, Dezire, Wife to James Wentworth, died. 

May 28*^, Abigail, Wife to Cap*. Joseph Osborn, died. 

Augs* 4th^ Elizabeth, Wife to David Perkins, died. 

Sepf 23^, Patty, Dau*' to Cap^ Sara" Cande, died. 

Sepf 24th, Hannah, Wife to Sam" Oatman, died. 170 

Oct^ 26*"^, Sarah, Dau" to Noah R. Lyman, died. 

j)ggr 4th^ ^jj infant Child to Isaac Buckingham died. 

Dec'' 18**", Agnes, infant Child to Benajah Chatfield, died. 

Dec 22'^, Mary, Wid. to Abiel Fairchild Deceased, dead. 

Feb'- 9^^, An Infant Child to Truman Stodard, died. 175 

Feb"" 16*^, Chancey, Son to Phineas Johnson, died. 

Feb^ 26*1^, Comfort, Wife to Noah R. Lyman, died. 

March o*^, Edward, Son to Cap^ Joseph Osborn, died. 

June 25^^, Abigail, Wife to Lieu* Sam" Wheeler, died. 

Ocf 28*1^, Lyman, Son to Abel Waters, died. 180 

Dec lo***. An Infant Child to John Bassit, Jn'', died. 

March 11*^, Eunice, Dauf to Jared Buckingham, died. 

June 8*% A Child to Daniel Hide, died. 

June 28*'', Ethiel, Infant Son to Joseph Perkins, died. 

July SI"**, Joseph, Son to Robart Wheeler deceased, died. 185 

Ocf 30"', Lieu* John Chatfield died in the 98*'' year of his age. 

Dec'^ — An Infant Grand Child to John Riggs deceas*^, died. 

JanJ" IG, Abigail, Daut' to Joseph Townor, died. 

Feby 16*'', An infant Child to Thomas Clark, Jn^, died. i These 2 died with 

Feby 25*'', Anne, Dauf to David Smith, died. { thesmall pox. 190 

March 22*^, Joseph, Son to Joseph Riggs deceas"*, died in the small pox. 

March 25*'', David Johnson Riggs, Son to Jos'" Riggs Decs*^, died. 

April 3*^, Polly, Dauf" to Eleazar Sperry, died. 

May 10*'', Laurin, Son to Cap* Jos'' Riggs, died. 

June 22*1, Eunice, Wife to Tho^ Clark, Esq', died. 195 

June 23*', Esther, Dauf to David Riggs, died. 

July 17*'', Ebenezer Bassit the aged, died. 

July 18*"', Betty, Wife to David Riggs, died. 

Sept'" 12*'', Leveritt, Son to Daniel Smith, Jn', died. 

Sepf 15*1', ^Q.^]^ Tomlinson Sen*", Died. 200 

Sepf" 16*'', Joseph Osborn Jn"", Died. 

Sept' 18*'', Esther, Dauf" to David Smith Jn', died. 

Sepf" 19*'', Lampson, Son to David Smith, Jn*", died. 

Sepf^ 30*'', Lecta, Dauf" to Jared Osborn, died. 



DEATHS. 51 

Ocf 5^^, Cretia, Dauf to Truman Bristol, died. 205 

Oct' 22*^, Leman Stone, son to Nabotli Osborn, died. 

Oct'- 23'^, Mehitable Griffin died in the 104"' year of her age. 

Ocf 27*'\ Freelove Anne, Wife to Jared Osborn, died. 

Dec'' 9"', Rosetta, Daut' to George Clark, died. 

March 8"', Joel, Son to Joseph Durand, died. 210 

May 20"', An Infant Child to Joseph Perkins, died. 

June 27*'^, Betsey, Daut' to Medad Cande, died. 

Sepf 30*'', Dec" Ebenezer Buckingham, died. 

Ocf 2*^, Azel, Son to John Buckingham, died. 

Oct'' 7*'', Sukky, Daut' to John Buckingham, died. 215 

Jany 19*", David Twichel, died. 

Feby 9*'', Polly, Dauf to Gad Bristol, died. 

Feby 19*'', Burritt, Son to Gad Bristol, died. 

March 9*'', Abigail, \Vi<r^ to Joseph Townor, died. 

March 23^\ Osias, Son to Elisha Griffin, died. 220 

April 21***, Wife to Edward Bassitt, died. 

May 21st, An Infant Child to Sam" Biggs. 

July 12*'', An Infant Child to Abner Johnson. 

Augs* 29*'', Timothy Johnson, died. 

Sept'' 5t^ Sarah, Wife to Eliphalet Bristol, died. 225 

Sept' 27*", Richard Hubbel, Died. 

Jany 29, Beulah, Wife to Wm. Lewis, Died. 

March 2P*, Cap* Joseph Osborn, died. 

April 17, Elisha Wooster, died. 

September 14, Katharine, Wife to Sam" Riggs Jn'', died. 230 

October 11, Thomas Clark, Jn', died. 

Deem' 19, A Child of Jahiel Peet, Died. 

Feby 10, A Child of David Bunnels, died. 

Mch. 16, William 11. Ferguson, Son to John Ferguson, Died. 

April 21st, John, Son to John Toowr died. 

April 25*'', Lucy, Wife to John Buckingham, died. 235 

An Infant Child to John Bassit, Jn', died. 
Sepf 13*", Tho« Bissel, died. 
Oct'" 1"*, Eliakim Burdsley, died. 

October 26, John Ferguson, Died. 240 

Nov. 3% Comfort, Wife to G. Perry, died. 
Nov' 22"^, Mercy, Dauf to Justus Bristol, died. 



52 OXFOED HISTORY. 

Nov 14*'^, Harry, Son to Josiah Tucker, died. 
Dec»- 24^\ Lieu* Sara" Wheeler, died. 

ISOO. 
Jany 5*% An Infant Child to Bowers Johnson, died, 245 

April 7, Sally, Dau-" to Caleb Tomlinson, died. 
May 20, Widow Hannah Riggs, died. 
May 28"', Dorcas, Wife to Eleazar Sperry, died. 
June 23'i, Nathan Fairchild, died. 

Septem'- 18, A son to Wait Garritt, Died. 250 

October 1, Polly, wife to Truman Bristol, died. 
Octo'*' 25, An Infant Child to Truman Bristol, died. 

ISOl. 
May 5, Wife to Stephen Curtiss, died. 
May 8, an Infant Child to David Buunell, Died. 

July 23, Cap* Abijah Hide, Died. 255 

Sept""' 8, Jeremiah Johnson, died. 
October 7, Anna, Wife to Elijah Durand, died. 
Novem^'' 9, Hannah, Wife to Cap* Hezekiah Hine, died. 

Feby 28*1^, Caroline, Infant Daut^' to Chester Smith, died. 

March 4"', Esther, Wife to Sam" A. Buckingham, died. 2G0 

March 21^*, Polly Nash, Grand Daut^' to George Cable, died. 

April 17ti», Sally, Infant Daut^ to Sam" A. Buckingham, died. 

April IS*!', 2 Infant Twin Children to Levi Cande, died. 

April 23'\ George Cable, died. 265 

April 27*^^, Amy, Daut»' to Joseph Townor, died. 

May 5*'^, Mark, Son to Dorman Leavenworth, died. 

Augst 24*1', ^^ inftint Child to Roger Perkins, died. 

Oct'- 18"', A Son to Cyrus Perry, died. 

Nov»- 9"^, Huldah, Dauf to John Riggs, died. 270 

Nov»- 22'!, Sarah, W^ife to Simeon Gun, died. 

Jany 10"^ Lois, Wife to George Gun, died. 

March 11"', Rusha, Daughter to Uri Scot, died. 

March 20"', Widow Ruth Kelley, died. 

March 23'i, An Infant Child to Josiah Tucker, died. 

April 10"', Polly, Wife to Josiah Tucker, died. 275 

April 19"', Millecent, Wife to Walker Wilmott, died. 

July 8lh, Eliphalet Bristol died, aged 91. 

Ocf 31, Hannah, Wife to Tho'^ Clark, Esq'', died. 

Dec"' l«t, Lois, Widow to Nathan Fairchild deceased, died. 280 

Dec'- 14"^, Richard Smith, died. 



DEATHS. 53 

-Dec' 30*'', Sally, wife to Peleg Griffin, died. 

1JS404. 

Feby l^t, Martha, Wife to Ezekiel Perry, died. 

Feby 29*1^, Wife to Josiah Perry, died. 

March 16*1^, Elijah Durand, died. 285 

A Child to W"' Bunell, died. 
March 28*^, an Infant Child to Caleb Cande Jn', died. 
May 3*^, Sarah, Wife to Lieut. John Bassit, died. 
May 8*"^, Lieu* John Bassit, died. 

May 21«t, Ebenezer Fairchild, died. 290 

August 14*^^, Lucinda, Wife to Elias Scott, died. 
Aug** 20*^, Samuel, Infant Son to Caleb Touilinson, died. 
March 10*'', Widow Thankful Johnson, died at Cornwall. 
Nov'' 10*^, Joseph Lines, died. 
Nov' 23<», Zebulun Marshal, Son to Zebulon Lines, died. 295 

Jany 19*^, Philo Beardslee, died. 

Jany 27*^, Patty, Infant Daut' to Timothy Johnson, died. 

Feby 24*^, Joshua Perry, Jn', died. 

March 13*'', Mary, Wife of Elisha Griffin, died. 

April 3'', James Wheeler Jn', died. 300 

May 19*'', Alma, Baut' to Luke Bunnel, died. 

May *'', Maria, Dan*' to Zebulun Lines, died. 

August 25*'', Hannah, Wife to Abner Johnson, died. 

Sept' 13*'', Cap* Abraham Bassit, died. 

Sept' 30*", Widow Lois Wheeler, died. 305 

Oct' 14*'', Widow Abigail Johnson, died. 

Oct' 23'', A Child to Ethiel Lounsbnry, died. 

April 17*'', Joseph Towner, died. 

May 15*", Eli Sperry, died. 

June 23'', Mirn, Dan*' to Enoch Bristol, died. 310 

June 27*", Cap* Zachariah Hawkins, died. 

Augu^* 3*^, Anne, Daut' to Enoch Perkins, died. 

Nov. 12*", Dece*' Eeve'' David Bronson aged 67 years, after a life spent in 
the work of the ministry for 42 years — he was born in New Milford, Oct' 
23", 1739, Old Stile. Graduated at Yale Coll, 17G2 N. S. and was ordain- 
ed in Oxford, April 25*", 17G4, Leaving behind him a Wife & 3 Children. 

IJ^OO. Aged. 

Aug. 2, Cinthia Stiles, daughter of Nathan & Stiles. 13 

Dec. 28, Hurd, Son of M' Asahal Hurd. 7 

ISIO. Aged. 

Jany 24, M'* Hannah Loveman, wife of Clark Loveman. 38 



54 OXFORD HISTORY. 

Feb. 7, M' John Towner. Aged 60 

March 6, Simeon Stiles, Son of Nathan Stiles. 26 

May 4, Samuel Tucker. 78 

Child of M' David Cande. 

Widow Bunnel. 83 

Nov. 29, Wife of Samuel Mallorj. 
30, Wife of Bowen Johnson. 

ISll. 
Riggs, Daughter of Sam' Riggs. 17 

M^ Ezekiel Perry. 77 

April 5, Deacon Thomas Clark, Esqr. 82 

29, M^« ' . Wife of Jared Orsborne. 

July 18, Widow Buckingham, relict of Dea'* Eben'" B. 79 

Nov. 29, Sophia Fox, daughter of M'' Joseph Fox of Woodstock. 20 

Infant of Sam' Riggs & Charry his wife. 

ISIS. 
Jan. 12, Widow Sarah Tucker Relict of Samuel Tucker. 74 

Feb. — child of Wheeler Lewes. 

April 14, M^'^ Anna, Wife of Cap^ Eben^' Riggs. 50 

May 18, Sarah Whitmore. 87 

July 18, Gennett, Daughter of John Limberner. 9 

Sep. 8, M'« Sarah Wheeler, relict of Sam' Wheeler. 92 

Widow Jones. 7a 

1S13. 
Feb. 28, Lorinda Kimberly, daughter of Thomas K. 
April 13, Elias Clark, 

23, Lois, Wife of J. M. Wales esqr. 

Apl 25, Child of Burrell. 

July 31, Widow Ester Cande. 
Sept. 12, Capt. Silas Bradley. 

21, Sally, child of Capt. S. Bradley, 10 months. 
27, child of Do. 

Oct. 2, chtild of Sam'l J. Riggs, 8 months. 
9, Isaac Bradley, Son of Capt. S. B. 
Jesse, do, do. 

Wife of David Smith. 
Dec. 18, Cloe, Wife of Jim Ellison, black. 

Ester, Wife of Deacon Nathan Buckingham. 

1S14. 

Jan. 1, Jared Buckingham. 

Feb. 5, wife George Blackraan. 

Morris. E 

Griffinff. 



or; 



DEATHS. 55 

June 12, Eaton. Aged 48 

June 18, John Riggs Esqr. E 72 

Julj 9, Gideon Perr)-. 82 

14, wife of John Hawkins. ^5 

30, wife of David Towner. 31 

John Hawkins. 



THE "CHURCH MEETINGS." 



The first church meeting recorded in this venerable vohime was held 
May 31*^*^ 17G4. Thomas Clark was chosen chorister and, "2 Voted that 
money should be drawn from y® Churches Treasury to purchase a Book for 
Chi' Records." 

'' Dec. 27"', 1764. At a Church Meeting Regularly Warned, holden at 
y*' Meeting House in said Parish, Imprimis, Samuel Woodruff chosen 
Deacon. 2. Voted that Docf Watses Version of the Psalms be sung in 
the Congregation on the Sabath or Lord's Day. S'^ meeting opened and 
closed by Prayer. Test David Brownson, Pastor." 

" July 18, 1765, it was voted by s<^ Ch^ that David Woodruff be admit- 
ted to special ordinances whenever he should appear to make a Publick 
Profession of Religeon, p'' David Brownson, Pastor." 

, " Oct'' 2*1, 1765. At a Ch^^ Meeting Regularly Warned Holden at y*^ 
Meeting House in Oxford to Consult some Christian measures concerning 
the Admission of Edward Riggs and Joel JSTorthrop to Special Ordinances, 
they being Communicants in y** Ch^ of England ; It was Voted that by 
Virtue of their being Communicants in said Ch^ t^ sliould he admitted as 
Members of our Ch^' in full Communion. 2"^ Voted y' Zerviah y'' Wife of 
Oliver Chatfield, who having owned her Baptismal Covenant, should be 
admitted to full Communion whenever she desired it. 

p'" David Brownson, Pastor." 

Nov. 24, 1765, Dea. Ebenezer Riggs was chosen messenger to go to 
Northbury for the confirmation of Mr. Storrs. 

Dec. 1, Dea. John Lumm was chosen messenger to attend the consocia- 
tion at North Guilford. 

At a church meeting held Jan. 2;3d, 1766, and at several subsequent 
meetings there were under consideration a disagreement between Asali 
Ward and Samuel Wheeler which are of interest only as showing the au- 
thority of the church at that time. It appears that Wheeler has spoken 
against the character of Ward. After giving the specifications the charge 
proceeds as follows: 



56 OXFORD HISTORY. 

" All which is apprehended to be a direct and scandelous breach of y^ 
9^^ Commandment, and highly prejudicial to Truth and Justice. And fur- 
thermore is >^ criminal slandring and Backbiting, and evil-speaking which is 
expressly, and repeatedly forbiden in God's Holy Word, and so is highly dis- 
honourable to God, and justly Matter of Offence to all y" People of God. 
That y*" Complainant being justly grieved, and offended, did according to y« 
Direction of our Lord Jesus Christ, in such case provided, go to y« s"^ Sam'* 
Whaler, and betwene him and himself alone told him his Fault, but he re- 
fusing to hear him, s** Complainant proceeded according to y« above men- 
tioned Direction, to take two of y** Brethren of s*^ Ch^^, and did with them go 
again and tell him his Fault, but without y« desired effect, and to his grief. 
And now according to Christs Rule he finds himself obliged to tell y® Matter, 
as he now does to the Ch*^ hoping his offending Brother, who has refused to 
hear him or y" Brethren with him will hear y® Ch^, wherefore y* s** Com- 
plainant desires his Rev*^ Pastor, and Brethren in Christ, to take Cog- 
nissance of the s*^ Matter, and Hear, Judge, Weigh, and determine s** Cause 
on hearing y« Evidence sd Complainant has in Readiness to produce in sup- 
port of y*^ Charge, brought in this Complaint, when called thereto. 

Dated in Oxford Sept^ 25*'^ 1765. Asah Ward. 

Rev. Messrs. Humphrey and Woodbridge were called in to advise and 
assist in the matter. Deacon John Lum, Capt. Joseph Osborn, Ensign 
Thomas Clark and Mr. Samuel Wooster were appointed to confer with 
Wheeler and Ward and endeavor to effect a reconciliation. These dignitaries 
being unsuccessful a meeting was held Jan. 30th, 1766. 

" Upon Consideration of the Facts, and hearing y^ Evidences in s*^ Case, 
it was l^t Determined by the Ch*", that, the Declaration of s** Sam" Wheler 
was not in Peremptory Terms, but by way of Oppiuion. — 2*i'y tryed by Vote 
wheather a Confession exhibited by s** Sam" Wheler, some Time Since to s^ 
Asah Ward was a Sufficient Confession, s"* Vote passed in the Negative. 3'^ 
Voted that s** Sam" Wheler should exhibit a publick Confession. 4*'''y Vot- 
ed that Deacon John Lumm, and Cap* Zechariah Hawkings, should go out 
with me in order to assist in drawing up a confession which was in y^ words 
following (viz:) "I Samuel Wheler, acknowledge, that Some Time in 
March 1765, I did openly utter Some Expressions (as my Opinion) against 
Asah Ward, a member of this Ch'', Contrary to the Rules of Gods Word, 
whereby I have grieved him and this Ch*^, for which I am heartily Sorry, and 
ask his Forgivness, and the Forgivness of all Gods People for me, promiss- 
ing by divine grace assisting me wherein I have offended to do so no more. 
Signed p"" Samuel Wheler. 

Oxford Jan^ SO^i^ 1766. 

It was voted that this "confession" was sufficient and that it "be read in 
publick next Lord's day, in the forenoon, immediately after ye sermon was 
ended," which was done and Wheeler "was restored to Charity." 



BIRTHS. 57 



BIRTHS. 

FROM THE TOWN RECORDS. 



The follo-w ng list is arranged in the same manner as on the records, and is an exact reprint, in 
spelling, superiors, &c., as nearly as can be given in type. 

Andrews, Ezra, 1790, Mar. 11. ) 

Betsey, 1793, Feb. 19. [ Of Eph"' & Mary. 
Liicy,"^ 1800, Oct' 4. ) 

Andrews, John Pierce, Esq', Son of Beuj'" & Hannab ; then of New 
Haven, born Si-pt. 7, 1788. 
Lucy Kebecca, daughter of John P., Esq"', 1815, Dec. IG. 
Charlotte Augusta, Daughter of John Andrews, June 3"', 1818. 

Alls, Elizabeth D., d'' of Abel and Elizabeth, 1819, May 21. 

Sebastian Albert Dutton, son of the same, 18lil, Apr. 25. 
Caroline Amelia, d' of the same, 18^:3, Dec'' 3. 
Philomela d'' of the same, 1820. 

Atwood, Charles W", s. of Henry C. & Jane, 1823, July 27. 

lUirrett, John, 18(14, Sept. 12. j 

w-n- ^' IT i«n!^' ^^'■' l< ( ^i'il'lren of Sam'^ & Maria; 
William H., 808, Apr. 28. K ,^^^.^ -^ 

James, 1811, Feb. 15. V •' 

Mary Ann, 1813, Mar. 7. J 

lialdwiu, Lavinia, d' of Daviil, 1815, Sej)t. 18, 

Bristol, Polly, 1802, May 17. \ 

Sylvania, 1804, June 24. / 

Thompson, 1800, Oct. 2 ( (.,^.,^j,.^^^ ^^. ,^,^.^^,^,^^^^ ^. j^^^ jj. 
Abel, 181 IS, Mav 28. / 

Cynde, 1810, Sept 12. I 
Maria, 1817, July 18. ) 

Bidwell, George A., Nov. 20'", A. D. 1825. ^ ^,,j,^^,.^^,^ ^^^ Xormand A. 
Frederic S., Ju y 25 , A. D. 182 . ^ ^^ ^^^^^^^.^^ j3i^,„,,„ 
Mary Jane, July 4''', A. D. 1832. ) 

Bradley, William W., son of Seymour & Parlas B., NoV 25, 1820. 

Bassett, Mary Elizabeth, d'' of Eneas & Sabia, xMay 8, 1823. 

Bradley, Mary Ann, Sepf 20'»', 1819. ) 

Henry N., June 18*'', 1822. [ Children of Treat & Sally Br;idl(>y. 
Burr,' born F<d)'- 2]^K 1831. ) 



58 HISTOEY OF OXFORD. 



Buckingham, Mark, bora Apr. 3^, 1820. " 

Martba, born Oct. 7"', 1823 



Henrietta, born April C*'', 1826. } & Clarissa 



Henry, born Feb. 29*1', igos 
Joel, born July 11*'^, 1839. \ 



Children of Nathan L. 



Buckingham. 



Bates, Julia, d'" of Andrew & Anna, 1798, June 22. 

Beardsley, Roswell, s. of Eliakim & Esther, 1793, Feb. 25. 

Bates, Lydia, 1804, Aug. 28. ^ 

Lucy Maria, 1806, Jan'^ 17. > Children of Amos Lydia Bates. 
Charles, 1812, March 17. ) 

Beardslee, Laura, June 17, 1798. ) rn -n ^ a n v i\,t 

-i?i -n^ \ 19 -lonn i Children of Sanv' & Mary. 
l*/lam, leb. 13, 1800. ) •' 

Beardslee, Polly, d"^ of Jared & Betsey, 1799, Sept. 19. 

Beecher, Isaac, s. of David & Polly, 1799, Nov. 20. 
Polly Maria, d"" of the same, 1801, June 28. 

Beardslee, Louisa Ruth, d'' of Elara & Esther, born August 31**^ 1827. 

Children of Benjamin and Eunice Bradley: 

Andrew Bradley, a sou, born May 17'-'', A. D. 1786. 
Seymour " " July 1''*, A. D. 1788. 

Meritt " " April V^^^, A. D. 1790. 

Treat " " Mar. 15"', A. D. 1792. 

Noyes " '• May 17"', A. D. 1794. 

Eunice " daughter, Sept. 13"', 1797. 
Charles " son, May 15'", A. D. 1800. 

Bryan, Betsey, 1790, Jnn-^y 20. ") 

Sally, 1791, Auir. 0. i /-,i -i i e r i- * 
T.., i'7n< T -J y Children of Isaac 6:, Anna. 
Ira, 1^94, June 3. { 

Nancy, 1798, Apr. 8, ] 

Hervy, 1800, June 5, of the same. 

Alenson, 1802, Augt., of the same. 

Baldwin, Marianne, d^ of Jesse G. & Lydia R., Feb. 18, 1831. 

Ba.ssett, Polly, 1770, Sept. 28. '] 

Nathan, 1794, March 13. I /-,, -n e t i i, v jr ; 
T31 ;i i^n/' T o- ^ C 11 dreu of John, J'., oc Kezia. 
Philo, 1<96, Jnne2o. { ' ' 

1899, Nov. 17. 3 

Bassett, Andrew, 1791, Sept. 14. ) 

Joel, 1792, Sept. 21. } Of Edw^ & Polly. 

William, 1794, Sept. 18. ) 

Bradley, Rhoda, d''. of Philo & Rhoda, 1800, Sept. 13. 
Botsford, Susan, d'. of Sam". & Antha, 1803, Jan'>' 27. 
Bunnell, Catharine, d''. of Renus & Temperance, born July 7"', 1827. 

BuDiell, Polly, 1790, June 28. j ^^ ^^^„,„^ ^^^ ^^^^ 

Lewis, 1<98, June lb. ( 



BIRTHS. 59 

Bunnell, Leverett, 1792, May 13. ") 

jJel,%796,^October 14. \ ^^ ^"^^ '"^ ^arab. 
Hervey, 1799, July 6. ] 

Bunnell, 1797, May 7. ) .^^ T-k • i p ti n 

Lockwood, 1798; Nov. 25. } ^^ ^^^^*^ ^ P^"-^' 
1800, Sept. 2, of the same. 

Bunnell, d''. of Truman & Anna, 1800, Aug. 13. 

Bunnell, Chester, 1788, Apr. 12. ) 

Reuben, 1795, Ocf. 30. > Of Benjamin & Mary. 
Renas, 1799, May 14. ) 

Bunnell, Charles Beers, s. of Erastus & Charlotte, 1822, Nov»". 8. 

Buckingham, Thomas, 1791, Nov. 10. 1 
Esther, 17*»6, Apr. 14. | 

Clark, 1798, Sept. 21. ]■ Of Andrew & Esther. 
Anrelius, 1793, Nov. 30. 
Another died 1801, Aug. 30. 

Buckingham, Rowena, 1795, Dec''. 20. ^ 

David W. 1797, Sept. 25. [ Of Eben & Olive. 
Polly, 1799, Feb. G. ) 

Buckingham, Beulah, d'. of Nathan J. & Selene, 1799, Apr. 25. 

Buckingham, Asahel, 1794, Mar. 22, ) 

Ilezekiah, 179.j, Nov. 28. ^ Of John and Lucy, dec'>. 
Lucy, 1797, Apr. 28. ) 

Susanna, 1799, Mar. 13, of John and Estiier. 
1800, Sept. 30, of tlie same. 

Buckingham. Clarissa, 1794, Aug. 27. ] 

' Cvnthia, 1804, Aug. 17. [ 

Sf'''f ' JqIIq' t^''"'- ^<- y «f Eben & Oliv 

Eben', 1809, June lb. 



W'". Woodruff, \.^,n o . r 
\TiT \ A. .■ } 1810, Oct. 0. 

Wales Austm, ) ' 



3 



Buckingham, James Andrew, .-. 1809, Apr. 20. ) 

Mary, May .-. 11, 1811. J- Of Capt. and Mary. 

Sam" Andrew .-. 1815, Dec''. 2. ) 

Bassett, John T., born Sept. 30*'', A. D. 1838. 1 

Louisa A., born July 15"', A. D. 1840. Children of John 

Helleu M., born Aug. 17*", A. D. 1842. V R. & Mary Ann 
Marv Gilbert, Mar. 10, A. D. 1845. Bassett. 

Samuel Allen, born Feb. 19, 1848. \ 



60 HISTORY OF OXFORD. 

Bassett, Russel, born January 23'''\ A. D. 1784. 

Kezia, born Aussst 20"^, A. D. 1785. 

William, born Jan'>' 13"', A. D. 1788. 

Hannah, born August d^^, A. D. 1790. 

Ebenezer, born September 15*^, A.D. 1792. ( Children of 

Eneas, born August 16*^^, A. I). 17C4. \ Samuel & Mary 

Sam" ]McNiel,born Dec. 17*'', A. D. 1796. ( Bassett. 

Polly Minervy, born Jan'-y b^^, A. D. 1800. 
Markus, born May 10"', A. D. 1802. 

Grace, born Jane l'^*, A. D. 1804. 

Abraham, born July 4"', A. D. 1808. 

Bassott, John R., born April .30"', A. D. 1815, son of Samuel & Abegail 
Bassett. 

Browne, Jane Harrison, d. of Rev. Abr'" & Lucy Maria, Dec'' G"', 1830. 

Clark, Betsey, Dec^ 1789. ) 

Patty," 1792, Mar. 18. f ^p ,, , . ,, .i 

David, 1794; Aug. 19. t 0^ ^^^<^^ '^' ^^''^^•^^'^• 

Patty, 1896, Nov. 9. ) 

Clark, s. of Samuel & Eunice, 1799. Nov. 1. 

Church, s. of W^ & Lois, 1800, Oct. 24. 

Cande, Charlotte, d. of Enos & Elizabeth, 1823, Sept»-. 

Chatfield, Lois, 1790, Oct. 28. 1 

John, 1793, May 30. ( ,.„ , 00, 

T..,,.,!,^ i^oc T IP )• Oi Isaac «x barali. 
iruman, l<9b, June lb. f 

Zera, 1798, Dec'". ) 

Clark, Elisha, s. of George & Lydia, Jan'y 22, 1799. 

Chatfield, Curtiss, 1782, NoV 3. ) 

Isaac, 1786, Oct. 15. V Of Isaac & Sarah. 
Oliver, 1788, July 17. ) 

Chatfield, George, sou of Devine & Mamora, Dec'' 13, 1810. 

Chatfield, Abia, 1790, May 20. \ 

Asahel, 1792, Mar. 10. / 

Elias, 1794, July 11. f 

Nancy, 1790, Aug. > Of Dan" & Elizabeth. 



Eliz. Ann, 1799, Jau'J 12, I 
Racliel, 1787, Jau'y 21. \ 
Sally, 1789, Aug. 28. / 



Coger, Charles William, born July 7"', 1829, child of Jeremiah c^ 
Ainaritter Coger, 

Cande, Eunice Augusta, July 17"', 1810, daughter of Isaiah & Millissa. 
Cooper, Joseph, s. of Chauncy & Anna, 1812, Aug. 10. 



BIRTHS. 61 

t The following is rearranged so as to bring together all the items regarding each family, for 
|i greater convenience of reference. 

Couch, children of Bradley and Aurelia : 

Betsey, born Aug. 23, 1807. James, Oct. 23,1808. 
Cande, children of Justus and Eunice : 

Isaiah, July 31, 1779. Burritt, Oct. 28, 1786. 

Sheldon, July 15, 1781. Lucy, Sept. 26, 1790. 

Timothy, Jan. 18, 1784. Eunice, Oct. 2, 1795. 

Cande, Justus, son to Caleb and Lois, Feb. 17, 1756. 

Eunice, his wife, July 12, 1758. 
Cande, Leverett, son of Job and Sarah, June, 1795. 
Cande, Aurin, son of Daniel and Lydia, Jan. 25, 1804. 
Cande, Elizabeth Charlotte, Nov. 4, 1810, d. of Benjamin and Almira. 
Cande, Archibald, .-. son of Caleb J. and Sina, Oct. 19, 1804. 

Cande, children of Cyrus and Rebekah: 

Agnes, Feb. 14, 1797. Sina, June 27, 1801. 

Perloxa, Feb. 10, 1799. 
Cande, Julius, son of Daniel and Lydia, Feb. 17, 1800. 
Cande, children of David and Hannah: 

George Wiard, Oct. 7, 1809. David Bristol, May 2, 1816. 

George Newell, June 5, 1811. Frederic Augustus, June 15, 1818. 

Mary Elizabeth, Aug. 2, 1813. Charles Addison, June 23, 1823. 

Cande, children of Levi, Esq., and Lucy: 

Burrit. Catharine. 

Adeline. William. 

Juliet. John, 

Henrietta. Ann, March 15, 1822. 

Cande, Polly, d. of Levi and Anna, March 27, 1799. 
Cande, children of Timothy and Lucinda: 

Lucinda, Jan. 28, 1802. Justus, .-. Jan. 15, 1804. 

Eunice Janette, Feb. 8, 1806; died July 28, 1809. 

Burritt Dwight, Nov. 8, 1811. 
Cable, children of Roswell and Hannah: 

Mary Anne, March 8, 1820. Julia Elizabeth, May 18,1826. 

Agur Edwin, Feb. 3, 1822. Frederick Abijah, Aug. 29, 1828. 

Lavinia Lucy, July 24, 1824. Betsey Mariah, Sept. 28, 1830. 

Cables, children of Isaac and Julia : 

Polly Eliza, Sept. 27, 1801. David Sanford, Dec. 21, 1807. 



62 HISTORY OF OXFORD. 

Chambers, George Orlando, son of Francis and Ruth, Sept. 15, 1801. 

Chapman. Children of Reuben and Polly: 

Austin, April 25, 1806. Polly Ann, March 10, 1813. 

Eliza, June 17, 1808. 

Chatfield, children of Chester and Clarissa: 

Philo, born Sept. 21, 1816. Martha, May 22, 1824. 

Hervey and Henry, May 14, 1819. Lucretia Mary, Feb. 23, 1831. 
David, April 18, 1822. 

Chatfield, Amanda Henrietta, d. of Henry and Amanda, b. Jan. 26, 1822. 
John Lyman, Sept. 13, 1826, son of Polaski and Amanda. 

Clark, children of Elias and Susan C. : 

Newton, Dec. 17, 1806. Sarah, March 11, 1809. 

Elias, April 6, 1811. Jonah, Feb. 11, 1813. 

Susan, March 11, 1809. 
Clark, children of David and Clary: 

Charles, Jan. 22, 1818. David, Jan. 26, 1820. 

CuRTiss, Laura, d. of Stephen and Mary, Aug. 7, 1790. 

Davis, children of Capt. John and Mehitabel: 

Sarah, March 31, 1783. Nabby, Dec. 21, 1795. 

Anson, Sept. 5, 1785. Nancy, Dec. 21, 1795. 

Truman, March 13, 1787. Joseph Wheeler, Aug. 13, 1798. 

John, Sept. 8, 1788. Sheldon, Sept. 2, 1800. 

Lucretia, Sept. 22, 1790. Lewis, Jan. 26, 1803. 

Mary, May 28, 1792. Burritt, July 12, 1806. 

Chara, Feb. 8, 1794. Julia Maria, July 4, 1810. 

Davis, children of John and Laura: 

John Riggs, Dec. 20, 1814. Otis, Feb. 8, 1825. 

Isaac Beecher, April 15, 1817. William Hart, March 10, 1829. 

Davis, children of Lewis and Lucinda: 

Henry, born Oct. 10, 1830. Mary, Oct. 31, 1840. 

Franklin Lewis, June 19, 1847. 

Davis, Isaac Beecher, son of William and Patty, May 26, 1798. 

Driver, Jane Ennis, d. of James, Oct. 21, 1828. 

DURAND. Children of Nehemiah and Ruth : 

John, March 8, 1791. Polly, July'3, 1796. 

DuRAND. Children of Joseph and Pena: 

Elijah, Sept. 6, 1790. Glover, April 25, 1796. 

Betsey, Dec. 27, 1792 J d. Feb. 6, 1795, Clary, July 21, 1799. 



BIRTHS. 63 

DUTTON, children of Hosea and Elizabeth: 

John, ]S"ov. 11, 1783. Maria Sylvia, April 10, 1791; d. 1794 

Israel, Dec. 29, 1784; d. 1812. Eunice, March 20, 1793. 

Huldah, Aug. 23, 1786; d. 1794. Lemuel, Jan. 23, 1795; d. 1795. 

Alraira Clementina, March 15, 1788. Philomela, Jan. 22, 1796. 

Sophia Charlotte, Dec. 11, 1789. Elizabeth, Feb. 14, 1798. 

Sebastian Maria Ximenes Petruchio, Jan. 26, 1800; d. 1824. 

Thomas Albert Buoneparte Jeiferson, Jan. 27, 1802. 
DUTTON, children of Thomas and Lucinda: 

Albert Augustus, Feb. 5, 1829. Eliza Maria, Feb. 23, 1831. 
English, children of David: 

Mellissa, Nov. 29, 1793. David A. B., Dec. 18, 1807. 

Anna, April 1, 1796. Sally G., Oct. 11, 1804. 

Minerve, Feb. 1, 1802. 
English, Joel, son of David and Jerusha, March 26, 1799. 
English, children of Clement and Sarah : 

Daniel, April 24, 1794. Sarah R,, Nov. 26, 1806. 

Amos, Dec. 28, 1798. Stephen Bennet, Aug. 6, 1807. 

Fabreque, Asa Louis, son of William L., May 9, 1828. 
Fairchild, children of Ebenezer and Eunice: 

Julia, Feb. 19, 1795. Hanford, March 7, 1799. 

Nathan, Oct. 12, 1796. 
Fairchild, children of John and Mary: 

Abial, April 25, 1800. Stiles, May 6, 1805. 

Lyman, Feb. 8, 1803. 
Fairchild, children of Hanford and Elvira: 

William Augustine, Nov. 6, 1822. Sterne Delos, Feb. 17, 1828. 
Freeman, Harriet, d. of Nathaniel and Mary, Nov. 20, 1810. 
French, Bennet, son of Elisha and Ruth, July 7, 1800. 
French. Children of Joseph N. and Sarah : 

Sheldon, April 18, 1784. Joseph, Feb. 21, 1791. 

Nichols, Sept. 4, 1785. Sally, May 11, 1793, 

Lucy, Feb. 2, 1787. David, April 16, 1795. 

John, April 27, 1789. Philo, June 17, 1797. 

French, Sarah Augusta, d. of David and Elizabeth, Jan. 7, 1830. 

GiBBS, Simeon Martin, son of Gideon and Eunice, Sept. 10, 1811. 

Graham, Sarah Mariah, d. of George William and Evelina, March 4,1824. 

Gripfin, children of Jonathan and Lydia: 

Daniel. Mahitabel, July 6, 1798. 



G4 HISTOEY OF OXFORD. 

HarGtER, children of Elijah and Sarah: 

Lucinda, Jan. 5, 1799. Caroline, Sept. 5, 1802. 

Harger, children of Alfred and Ruth : 

Catharine Jane, Jan. 1, 1831. Charles, Jan. 23, 1834. 

Henry, April 14, 1832. 
Hatch, children of Sherman and Sarah : 

Sally, July, 1795. Benjamin Austin, Oct. 18, 1799. 

Clarissa, Jan. 13, 1798. Seymour, Nov. 20, 1801. 

Hatch, Ghauncey Miles, son of Chauncey M. and Julia, May 24, 1822. 

Hawkins, children of Isaac and Anna: 

Russell, April 27, 1792. Isaac, March 28, 1796. 

Zachary, Feb. 1, 1794. Amos, March 29, 1798. 

Hawkins, children of Zachary, Jr., and Sally. 

Lydia, Dec. 2, 1798. Marcia, Aug. 28, 1800. 

Hawkins, children of Elijah and Abigail: 

Asa, Aug. 18, 1796. Phebe. 

Hawkins, Lewis, first child of Asa, March 29, 1822. 

Hawkins, Elizur, son of Lu and Sarah, Jan. 11, 1802. 

HiGGiNS, d. of Sylvester and Comfort, Aug. 29, 1799. 

HiNMAN, children of Philemon 'and Polly: 

Clary, Nov. 2, 1794. , Sept. 5, 1790. 

HiNMAN, Lyman, son of John and Abigail, July 8, 1798. 

HiNMAN, children of Simeon and Phebe: 

Betsey Phebe, March 14, 1822. Nicholas, Oct., 22, 1827. 

John Wanzer, Nov. 9, 1824. 
HUBBEL, children of Joseph and Betty : 

Harry, Nov. 29, 1789. Mills, Feb. 17, 1798. 

Merit, June 12, 1793. Betsey, Feb. 5, 1800. 

Joel, March, 1795. 

HUBBEL, children of Richard and Mercy : 

Almena, Aug. 9, 1793. Augustus, March 20, 1795. 

Hull, children of Abel and Abigail : 

Abel, June 4, 1794. "^ Samuel, Dec. 28, 1790. 
, Jan. 12, 1800. 

Hull, children of Ezra and Betty Ann: 

Polly, May 30, 1797. Bennet, Feb. 1, 1799. 

Hull, Amanda, d. of Isaac and Diana, April 12, 1812. 



BIRTHS. 

Humphrey, children of Cyrus and Nancy: 

Bernard, May 31, 1820. Kancy, March 19, 1822. 



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Hyde, children of Daniel and Eunice: 
Merrit, May 12, 1791. 
Merrit, Jan. 2, 1794. 



Garry, April, 1795. 



Hyde, children of Capt. Asahel and Mary: 



Marcus, Oct. 30,1791. 
Cyrus, April 6, 1794. 
Calvin, March 17, 1796. 

Hyde, children of Nathan and Sally: 
Lorren, Aug. 21, 1792. 
Harry, June 29, 1794. 
Nathan, Feb. 8, 179G. 

Hyde, children of John and Betsey: 
Alencon, July, 1795. 
David, Sept. 28, 1797. 

Hyde, children of Joseph and Anna: 
Alva, Jan. 8, 1794, 
Clarissa, May 24, 1796. 
Frederic, Aug. 10, 1798. 
Eunice, March 20, 1801. 



Cynthia, July 11, 1797. 
Ira, Nov. 17, 1799, 



Asahel, Oct. 15, 1797. 

Sally Lovilla, April 14, 1799. 

Horatio, 1800. 

Patience, Jan. 19, 1790. 



Isaac, May 23, 1803. 
Daty, April 26, 1805. 
Sheldon, Aug. 31, 1808, 
George, Feb. 1, 1812. 



Hyde, children of Aurelius and Sarah Ann: 

David Aurelius, May 10, 1802. Mary Jane, Oct. 20, 1806. 

Sarah Ann, June 14, 1804. Jane Janette, Dec. 20, 1807. 

Hyde, Laura Jane, d. of Abijah and Sally, Jan, 28, 1826. 



Johnson, children of Ezra and Betsey 
Curtiss, Feb. 27, 1794. 
Betsey, 1795. 



Ralph, Aug. 2, 1797. 



Johnson, children of Timothy and Olive: 

Jerusha, Sept. 27, 1792. Alvin, Sept. 20, 1799. 

Anna, May 4, 1797. 

Johnson, children of Asa and Polly : 

Charles, Aug. 15, 1827. Nancy, Jan. 23, 1829. 

Johnson, Susanna, d. of Phineas and Sarah, June 25, 1794. 

Johnson, children of Phineas, Jr., and Lois: 

, July 31, 1797. , Oct. 15, 1799. 



66 HISTORY OF OXFORD. 

Johnson, children of Sbubel and Chloe, colored: 

Nancy, May 6, 1784. Henrietta, June 10, 1794 ; d. Oct. 

Mille, Nov. 26, 1785. [15, 1795. 

Isaac, 13ec. 26, 1787; d.Dec.30,1787. Charles, Oct. 26, 1796. 

Amy, July 22, 1789. Eunice, Oct. 26, 1800. 

Julia, Aug. 12, 1791. Betsey, June 5, 1803. 

Johnson, children of Hervey and Anne: 

, Aug. 10, 1819. , 1824. 

, Jan. 25, 1821. Martha, Nov. 6, 1826. 

, Sept. 27, 1822. 

Kelly, , son of Matthew, March 3, 1799. 

LiMBOURNiER, children of John and Fanny: 

Janette, July 5, 1802. James Wallace, Feb. 9, 1814. 

Mary, IMay 8, 1806. Janette, 2d, Sept. 17, 1816. 

Jane, May 12, 1808. Harriet, Oct. 29, 1818. 

John, March 20, 1810. Robert Bruce, March 21, 1821. 

Lydia, Feb. 18, 1812. 
Lewis, children of Silas and Mary: 

Hepzibah, Nov. 22, 1791. Nancy, Sept. 1, 1793. 

LUM, children of Billy and Deidamia: 

Sally, Oct. 16, 1799. Jane, Jan. 29, 1804. 

Enos, Nov. 21, 1801. George, March 20, 1809. 

LUM, Polly Maria, d. of David and Polly, 1802. 

Lines, children of Zebulon and Lois: 

Sherman, Nov. 12, 1798. Thirza, Oct. 3, 1800. 

The first born after the incorporation of the town. 

Little, children of William and Martha: 

Lewis, June 27, 1792. Anson, Sep. 18, 1794. 

Leavenworth, children of Dorman and Lucy: 

Betsey, Oct. 19, 1796. Mark, Sept. 28, 1798. 

Lake, children of Walker and Anna: 

Isaac, Aug. 7, 1801. . Lucius, June 8, 1807. 

Eliza, May 21, 1803. Sally, April 11, 1809. 

Mary, May 22, 1805. Anna Augusta, Jan. 1, 1814, 

LOVELAND, children of Benjamin and Hannah : 

Abijah, Nov. 11, 1797. Alfred. 

Asa, Dec. 13, 1799. 
McEwEN, children of David and Sally: 

James, July 6, 1798. Minerva, May 19, 1802. 

Polly, Oct. 31, 1799. 



BIETHS. 67 

Meigs, children of Samuel and Lorena: 

Sarah Elizabeth, May IG, 181G. Benjamin Clark, Aug. 14, 1820. 

Jane Caroline, April 14, 1818. David Tomlinson, Feb. 21, 1822. 

MiNOT, Betsey, d. of Lewis and Anna, Nov. 27, 1797. 
Morris, children of William and Betsey: 

William, May 6, 1799. Jason, May 3, 1805. ' 

Sheldon, April 8, 1801. Adeline, Oct. 9, 1806. 

Elliot, April 9, 1803. 
MUNN, children of Deodate and Selina: 

Ehoda, June 14, 1809. Seduski, March 24, 1811. 

MUNSON, children of Charles and Lorana: 

Janette, May 5, 1800. Eliza, April 10, 1806. 

Van Tuyl Barbara. Isaac, April 23, 1808. 

Vanderbilt, Feb. 17, 1804. Betsey, Feb. 15, 1810. 

Nichols, Polly, d. of Lewis and Betsey, July 3, 1796. 
Nichols, children of Russell and Abigail : 

Rigg, Nov. 30, 1799. Isaac, Oct. 26, 1809. 

Lucy, May 23, 1802. Benjamin, April 10, 1817. 

Oatman, children of David and Sarah: 

Polly, Jan. 25, 1794. Charles, Nov. 4, 1799. 

David, Jan. 19, 1797. 
Oatman, George, son of Charles and Sally, May 2, 1822. 
OSBORN, Ransom, son of Joseph and Sarah, April 5, 1790. 
OsBORN, children of Naboth and Susanna: 

Lewis, Jan. 2, 1791. Sally, April, 1798. 

Leman Stone, June 4, 1793. Daniel, Oct., 1801. 

Luthena, Nov., 1795. Eletas, Dec, 1813. 

OSBORN, children of Ambrose and Rebekah : 

Eunice, Feb. 17, 1825. Noah Ambrose, May 25, 1829. 

Amanda, Oct. 13, 1826. Sarah Rebecca, July 23, 1830. 

OsBORN, Martha Candee, d. of Ambrose and Avis, June 13, 1834. 
OsBORN, children of Ransom and Sarah : 

Sarah, Sept. 2, 1816. Joseph Miles, Oct. 25, 1824. 

Ruth Ann, July, 1818. Rosalind Mary, May 17, 1827. 

Esther, July 8, 1822. Martha Caroline, May 31, 1829. 

Peet, children of Jehiel and Lois: 

Nancy, Nov. 1, 1792. Lois, Jan. 1, 1804. 

Betsey, Oct. 13, 1794. Sally, July 30, 1808. 

Eunice, Sept. 10, 1799. Lydia, Dec. 2, 1809. 

Minerva, Oct. 5, 1801. 



68 HISTORY OF OXFORD. 

PlERSON, children of Lewis and Esther: 

Elijah, Nov. 23, 1797. Eli, March 17, 1799. 

Perkins, children of David and Abigail: 

Polly Ann, June 15, 1790. , Dec. 3, 179G. 

Rebekah, March 24, 1793. , Jan. 21, 1799. 

Hannah, March, 1795. , Nov. 1, 1800. 

Perkins, children of Rogers and Betsey : 

Fairy, July 28, 1792. Charles, Sept. 26, 1796. 

Cande, May 26, 1794. Ralph, June 12, 1798. 

Agnes, 1795. Adoniram, Nov. 25, 1799. 

Perkins, Alta, d. of Joseph and Sarah, April 25, 1797. 

Perkins, children of Roswell and Eunice: 

Mark, Jan. 23, 1822. Lucy, March 20, 1826. 

Sally. Sally Caroline, Jan. 1, 1823. 
Perry, children of Joel and Betty : 

John Riggs, Jan. 20, 1791. David, March 10, 1800. 

Betty, June 28, 1792. Harriet, Sept. 10, 1803. 

Bennet, Jan. 31, 1794. Nathan, April 17, 1806. 

Lucy, Jan. 10, 1796. George, Sept. 9, 1809. 

Thirza, Feb. 15, 1798. Eunice, April 13, 1815. 
Perry, children of Caleb : 

Benjamin, July 18, 1792. Caleb, July 18, 1794. 

Perry, Manvil, son of Aurinda, Oct. 24, 1799. 

Perry, Jane, d. of Cyrus, Oct. 29, 1822. 

Perry, John Dutton, son of James and Mary, Aug. 31, 1821. 

Perry, Elizabeth Jane, d. of James and Lois, March 12, 1825. 

Perry, children of George and Betsey Ann : 

Salina, July 7, 1832. Emily Amelia, April 12, 1838. 

George Albert, March 6, 1835. 

Prindle, Maria, d. of Jabez and Susanna, June 9, 1801. 

RiGGS, children of Esq. John and Elizabeth: 

Betty, Aug. 15, 1768. Nabby, April 2, 1779. 

Samuel, Aug. 7, 1770. Gideon, Jan. 30, 1782. 

John, Dec. 22, 177L Anna, June 20, 1784. 

Mary, Nov. 20, 1773. Lucy, Jan. 17, 1787. 

Joseph, Oct. 11, 1775. Leveret, July 16, 1788. 

John, Esq., was born April 10, 1743. 

Elizabeth, his wife, Jan. 10, 1746. 



BIRTHS. 69 

RiGGS, children of Samuel .•. and Charity: 

Eunice, June 27, 1797. Chary, April 9th, 1805. 

Leman, July 19, 1799. Anson, April 19, 1807. 

Elizabeth and Anne, Aug. 2,1801. Jane, Nov. 14, 1809. 

Pierpont, May 18, 1803. Samuel, April 29, 1818. 

RiGGS, children of Leman and Sina: 

Mary Jane, April 19, 1823. Charles Pierpont, Nov. 30, 1827. 

RiGGS, Oliver, son of David and Hannah, Sept. 14, 1797. 

RiGGS, , son of Samuel and Betsey, Nov. 18, 1800. 

Rockwell, Benjamin Franklin, son of Jacob and Hannah R., Oct.20, 1824. 
RowE, children of Frederic and Hepsibah : 

Georgianna, Sept. 10, 1822. Frederic Wesley, Jan. 27, 1828. 

Hepsibah Minerva, May 9, 1824. 
Scott, children of Jesse and Mary : 

Hervy, May 1, 1796. David, July 15, 1801. 

William, July 5, 1798. 
Scott, children of Elias .-. and Eunice: 

Lucinda, Aug. 2, 1809. Eunice Mariah, Dec. 18, 1814. 

Asahel Lewis, May 25, 1811. Lewis. 

Scott, Julian, son of Ransom and Nabby, April 23, 1827. 
Scott, Merit Beecher, son of Lyman, Dec. 26, 1827. 

Seely, , son of William and Olive, March 28, 1800. 

Sherman, Cynthia, d. of Sherman and Lucy, June 14, 1810, later of Newtown. 
Sheeman, children of Ira and Hannah: 

Sarah, Nov. 11, 1815. Ira Elijah, June 12, 1826. 

Skeels, children of Arad and Sally: 

Jason, Dec. 21, 1802. Aurin. 

Burrett. 

Sally Minerva, d. of Arad and Sibyl, Feb. 12, 1812. 
Smith, Nathan, son of John and Lucy, June 20, 1796. 
Smith, children of David 3d and Polly: 

Sheldon, March 7, 1792. Hepzibah, Oct. 26, 1797. 

Smith, children of David, Jr., and Abilena: 

Ursula, Aug. 5, 1797. Polly, Dec. 24, 1799. 

Smith, children of David 4th and Eliza: 

Betsey, Nov. 20, 1797. , Feb. 23, 1800. 

Smith, children of Abel and Damans: 

Lucinda, May 2, 1793. , Dec. 19, 1798. 

Jonas, 1795. 



70 HISTORY OF OXFOED. 

Smith, Andrew Harley, son of Andrew and Ruth, Nov. 23, 1800. 

Smith, children of Andrew and Ruth : 

Willis Judd, June 12, 1791. Evalina, Oct. 24, 1796. 

Williard, Jan. 7, 1794. Isaac, May 10, 1803. 

Smith, children of Chester and Keziah: 

Wyllys, June 17, 1796. Stiles, Aug. 20, 1798. 

Smith, children of Isaac .-. and Sarah: 

Sarah, Feb. 16, 1801. Sally. 

Josiah, Sept. 23, 1803. Susan. 

Philo. Sylvia. 

Smith, Burritt, son of Abraham E. and Eraraa Maria, Aug. 4, 1820. 
Smith, Samuel, son of Hervey and Susan, Jan. 27, 1824. 

Smith, children of Willis and Olive: 

Ira Barnes, Jan. 3, 1829. Eunice. 

Spring, children of Samuel, Jr., .•. and Nabby: 

George Alonzo, April 29, 1821. Mary Ann, June 27, 1826. 

Charles Isaac, Oct. 29, 1823. 
Stlles, David, son of Gunwood .-. and Nancy, Sept. 22, 1824. 

Stone, children of Noah and Rosalind: 

Mary Elizabeth, July 9, 1811. Andrew, Nov. 25, 1815. 

Eunice, Nov. 12, 1812. David, Dec. 23, 1817. 

Martha, May 15, 1814. 

ToMKlNS, children of Francis and Mary : 

Hull, Dec. 22, 1798. , son, Nov. 1800. 

TOMLINSON, children of Esq. David and Lorena: 

Charles, June 19, 1785. Bennet Benedict, May 5, 1799. 

David, July 11, 1787. Mary Ann, March 10, 1801. 

Maria Theresa, Aug. 1, 1789. Janet Adeline, \ j ^ p ^o^^o 

David, Aug. 1, 1791. George Albert, i '^"^^ ^' -^*""^- 

Lorena, Aug. 4, 1793. Eliza, May 29, 1805. 

Lydia Augusta, Sept. 25, 1795. Henrietta, Sept. 13, 1807. 

Jane Caroline, June 30, 1797. William Augustus, Sept. 15, 1809. 

TOMLINSON, children of William Clark and Amy : 

Sally, Oct. 2, 1796. Burton, June 1, 1805. 

Curtis, Feb. 3, 1798. Russell, April 5, 1807. 

Clark, May 30, 1799. Charles, July 6, 1809. 

Harry, March 17, 1801. Bennett, May 1, 1811. 

Stephen, July 29, 1803. William, Feb. 1, 1813. 

TOMLINSON, Sally, d. of Noah and Mary, May 10, 1794. 



BIETHS. 71 

TOMXINSON, children of Caleb and Abigail : 

Locky, June 2G, 1797. Sally, 1800. 

Sally, Dec. 28, 1798. 
Townee, children of Asahel and Abigail : 

Truman Hurlbert, Oct. 21, 1822. Martha, July 8, 1826. 

Albert Bronson, June 23, 1824. Enos Warner, June 27, 1830. 

Treat, Hervey, son of Daniel and Betsey, May 15, 1797. 

Treat, Maria, d. of Elijah and Esther, Dec. 22, 1799. 

Trumbull, Emily, d. of Thomas, April 30, 1820. 

Trussell, , son of Phineas and Rachel, Dec. 9, 1800. 

Tucker, children of Josiah and Polly : 

Nancy, Oct. 12, 1798. Laura, Oct. 29, 1800. 

Tucker, children of Josiah and Betty : 

Mary L., Sept. 1, 1808. George W., July 17, 1812. 

Harry W., Feb. 22, 1810. Sarah, Sept. 11, 1814. 

Tucker, Henrietta, d. of Daniel and Laura, May 21, 1811. 
TwiCHEL, Anson, son of David and Margaret, March 10, 1790. 
Twichel, Polly, d. of Eben and Jerusha, March 8, 1800. 
TwiTCHEL, Edwin, son of Sheldon and Mary, Oct. 16, 1827. 
TwiTCHEL, children of Benjamin and Claraina: 

Robert, Jan. 9, 1777. Grace, July 26, 1785. 

John, July 21, 1779. Ruth Ann, April 1, 1790. 

Esther, July 15, 1781. Hannah, Oct., 1792. 

Lusaner, Aug. 20, 1783. Benjamin Starr, Feb. 27, 1798. 

Wales, children of Isaac Miles and Lois — born in New Haven : 

John Heaton, June 12, 1800. Catharine, Jan. 9, 1807. 

Samuel Albert, May 10, 1802. 
Washband, children of Josiah, Jr., .-. and Keturah: 

Josiah Smith, July 31, 1793. Starr Sterling, Feb. 12, 1807. 

Julia Laminta, April 0, 1797. Seth Perkins Staples, Feb. 15,1810. 

George Washington, Jan. 30, 1803. 
Washband, Catharine S., d. of Josiah and Mariah, Aug. 25, 1823. 
Waters, children of Abel and Ruth: 

Laura, July 28, 1793. Betsey, June 1, 1798. 

Rosswell, July 3, 179G, 
Wattlis, William, son of Joseph, Oct. 10, 1820. 
Wells, children of Gershom and Hannah: 

Herman Perry, Jan. 15, 1806. Ari Bennett, April 8, 1812. 



72 HISTORY OF OXFORD. 

Wheeler, Abel, son of Samuel, Jr., and Lois, Dec. 18, 1765. 

Eunice, his wife, July 25, 1771. 
Wheeler, children of Robert and Ruth: 

Samuel, July 2, 1769. Sarah, July 26, 1775. 

Elisha, Jan. 29, 1771. James and Joseph, dead. 

Moses, March 4, 1673. 
Wheeler, children of Samuel and Phebe: 

Sally Maria, Nov. 7, 1797. Birdsey Glover, Aug. 12, 1807. 

Betsey, June 10, 1803. 
Wheeler, children of Robert and Julia Laminta: 

Betsey Ann Sarah Elizabeth, Oct. 30, 1820. 

(This is given in another place as Oct. 20, 1821.) 

George, Feb. 3, 1823. Elisha, Oct. 31, 1836. 

Smith, Jan. 30, 1826. Julia Ann, Nov. 20, 1840. 

Robert, Jr., March 23, 1828. 
Welcoxson, Frances Ann, d. of N. J. and Ann, July 26, 1831. 
WiLMOT, children of Walker and Polly : 

John, Feb. 11, 1809. Jane, July 26, 1813. 

Eliza, Aug. 7, 1811. Julia Ann, May 20, 1817. 

WiLMOT, Sally, d. of Walker and Milicen't, May 4, 1800. 
Wooden, Susanna, d. of Charles and Eliza, Aug. 30, 1789. 
Wooden, Hannah, d. of William, Oct. 9, 1797. 
Woodruff, children of Nathan and Charity : 

Maria, Nov. 15, 1797. ■ , Aug. 30, 1799. 

WOOSTER, Nathan, Nov. 2.5, 1766. ) ^^ • i in » ^ ir-oo riu-n 

' Chanty' Plum, jily 26, 1767. } ^^™^^^ ^'^- ^^^'^^- ^^'^<^'^^'' 

Mamie, Sept. 23, 1789. Bennet, Oct., 1795. 

Grace, Jan. 9, 1791. Clarissa, March 4, 1798. 

Anna Maria, Nov. 13, 1793. Nathan Ransom, Nov. ]8, 1809. 

(Died Oct. 29, 1794.) 

WooSTER, Samuel, son of Samuel, dec'd, and Betty Perry, Dec. 31, 1790. 
WooSTER, children of Joseph and Hannah : 

Russell, April 26, 1791. Hannah, July 7, 1794. 

Sally, Aug. 5, 1792. 
WooSTER, Enos, son of Isaac and Marian, Nov. 17, 1794. 
WooSTER, children of Joseph, Jr., and Eliza Ann: 

Austin, Feb. 2, 1797. Lucy, Nov. 16, 1799. 

Newton, Feb. 28, 1798. Melissa, Nov. 26, 1800. 

WooSTER, Seth Madison, son of Sheldon and Sally, Feb. 23, 1812. 
WooSTER, children of Russell and Avis: 

William Burr, Aug. 22, 1821. Samuel Russell, April 22, 1829. 

Cynthia Cordelia, Dec. 1, 1824. 



MAEEIAGES. 73 



MARRIAGES. 

John Pierce Andrews, Esq., to Eunice, d. of Justus Cande, Sept. 13, 1814. 

Abel A. Allis and Elizabeth Button, May 3, 1818. 

Benjamin Bunnel,aged 24, and Mary Twichel, aged 27, N"ov.22,1786. 

Aiuos Bates, son of Elihu, and Lydia Lum, d. of Jonathan, Jan. 29, 1802. 

Eben Buckingham and Olive Woodrutf, Oct. 28, 1792. 

Andrew Buckingham and Mary Camp, June 23, 1803. 

Truman Bristol and Betsey Thompson, Dec. 18, 1801. 

Irenus Bunuell and Temperance Baldwin, Sept. 4, 1826. 

Justus Cande and Eunice Morton, Dec. 21, 1778. 

Isaiah Cande and Mellissa Biggs, Oct. 25, 1807. 

David Cande, son of David, now of Harwinton, and Hannah, d. of Abijah 

Catlin of Harwinton, Kov. 14, 1808. 
Timothy Cande, son of Justus, and Lucena, d. of Benjamin Twichell, Nov. 
Benjamin Cande and Alraira C. Dutton, Feb. 21, 1810. [11, 1801. 

Elias Clark and Susan C. Newton, Oct. 24, 1805. 
Hosea Dutton, physician, son ot John and Abigail, from Southington, to 

Elizabeth Trowbridge, d. to Israel and Mary of Oxford, Jan. 19, 1783. 
Capt. John Davis and Mehitabel Thomas, April 10, 1782. 
Jonpti N. French and Sarah Chatfield, April 17, 1783. 
Nathaniel Freeman and Mary B. Fox, Nov. 20, 1810. 

Aurelius Hyde, son of Capt. Abijah and Sarah Ann Chatfield, d. of John, 
Deodate Mun and Selina Batemau, Nov. 22, 1807. [Aug. 5, 1801. 

Jehiel Put and Lois Manderville, Jan. 12, 1791. 
Clark Phelps and Laura Monson,both of Oxford, Nov. 17, 1833. 
John Biggs, Esq., son of Joseph and Mabel of Derby, and Elizabeth, d. of 

Capt. Zach. T. Hawkins, Dec. 22, 1767. 
Andrew Smith and Euth Judd, July 6, 1790. 
Arad Skeeles and Sally Lake. 

and Sibyl Wooden, May 5, 1811. 

Noah Stone and Rosalind Marvin, Oct. 1, 1810. 
Benjamin Twichell and Claraina Hawkins, Feb. 26, 1776. 
Josiah Tucker and Polly Moore. 

and Betty Wheeler, March 12, 1808. 

Nathan Wooster and Charity Plum, Feb. 5, 1789. 
Abel Wheeler and Eunice Riggs, Oct. 1, 1786. 
Samuel Wheeler and Phebe Glover, Oct. 20, 1795. 



74 HISTORY OF OXFOED. 



DEATHS. 

Bristol, Angeline, Nov. 14, 1828, aged 10. 

David, Nov. 25, 1828, aged 7 years. 
Brown, Mrs., of Woodbridge, March 27, 1829, aged 74. 
Bassett, Thomas, son of Ezra L., April 10, 1831, aged 2. 
Buckingham, Clark, June 21, 1840, aged 41. 
Bunnell, Charles, March, 1838, aged 80 years. 

Benjamin, Sept. 20, 1840, aged 77. 
Buxton, Thomas, May 1st, 1841, aged 38. 
Beardslee, Lemuel, Nov. 23, 1841, aged 70. 
Bradley, Nancy, Nov. 9, 1828, aged 43. 
Cande, George W., son of David and Hannah, May 26, 1810. 

Caleb, December 1, 1828, aged 85. 

Horace, Jr., May 10, 1831, aged 4 months. 

Sarah, wife of Job, March 20, 1840, aged 75. 

Sarah, widow of Moses, October, 1841, aged 72. 
Chatfield, Henry, Mar. 21, 1822, in N. Carolina, aged 30. 

Hannah, wife of Abijah, Nov. 28, 1826, aged 73. 

John F., son of John and Molly, Aug. 3, 1826. 

Elizabeth, widow of Gideon, March 2, 1827, aged 64. 

Mary, wife of John Chatfield, January 21, 1827. 

Jennette, d. of Divine and Mamie, Oct. 1, 1831, aged 11. 

Mary, d. of Lewis and Thirza, Nov. 4th, 1831, aged 2 yrs. 9 m. 

John, June, 1837. 
Clark, Sherman, April, 1822, agd 39. 

Sheldon, April 10, 1840, aged 55. 
Camp, Eli B., March, 1841. 
Davis, Daniel, formerly of Derby, Mar. 20, 1822, aged 74. 

Nathan, January 4, 1823, aged 69. 

Otis, son of John, Jr. and Laura Apr. 12, 1842, aged 18. 

John, Jr., Aug. 8, 1844, aged 56. 
Dean, Elizabeth, widow of Ichabod D. and Wooster Twichel, Oct. 9, 1822^ 
Dutton, Dr. Hosea, Oct. 9th, 1826, aged about 72. [aged 88. 

Ferguson, John D., Nov. 14, 1828, aged 35. 
Hyde, Mary, widow of Capt. Abijah, Nov. 14, 1822, aged about 90. 

Mary, wife of Capt. Asahel, 1823, aged 54. 



DEATHS. 75 

Hull, Widow Betty Ann, Dec. 31, 1839, aged 67. 
Hawley, Javed, Esq., Jan. 27, 1822. 
Humphrey, Cyrus, Aug. 22, 182G, aged 29. 

Nancy, his wife, Aug. 25, 1826, aged 30, 

Homer, his son, Aug. 17, 1826, aged about 18 months. 
Hatch, Catherine, d. of Chauncey M., June 12, 1827, aged 15. 

Julia, wife of Chauncey M., March 19, 1840, aged 49. 
Hinman, Phebe, wife of Simeon, April 29, 1830, aged 39. 
Harger, Caroline Jane, d. of Alfred and Ruth, June 25, 1831. 

Elijah, March 21, 1840, aged 76. 
Joy, Edward R., son of Jesse and Sally, Aug. 22, 1826, aged 2 years. 

Johnson, Ebenezer. 

Betsey, widow, Nov, 11, 1841, aged 72. 
Jackson, Moses, Esq., Oct, 5, 1837, aged 34. 
Kiu)berly, Eunice, wife of Julius, December 19th, 1826, aged 36. 
Loveland, Betsey A., wife of Miles, July 13, 1827, aged 49. 
Leavenworth, Sophia, wife of Calvin, Esq., Sept. 20, 1839. 
Meigs, Benj. Clark, son of Samuel and Laura, April 21, 1821, aged 8 m. 
Nichols, Isaac, December 23, 1826, aged 56. 
Osborn, Henry, son of Thos. L. and Eunice, Sept. 20, 1828, aged 2. 

Ambrose, May 22, 1840, aged 55. 

Clarissa Towner, wife of Joseph Osborn, Oct. 19, 1832, aged 54. 

Perkins, ^Nlark, son of Roswell and Eunice, aged 1 m. 

Lucy, d. of Roswell and Eunice, March 2, 1832, aged 5. 

Peck, David, May 3, 1841, aged 80. 

Phebe, wife of Parks, Nov. 1822, aged 67. 
Riggs, David, Mar. 26, 1822, aged 56. 

Edward, July 21, 1821, aged 59 years and 6 mouths. 

Samuel, Nov. 18, 1835, aged 65. 

Julia, wife of Mr. Ebenezer, Aug. 9, 1844, aged 34. 

Stone, Mary E., Nov. 9, 1814, aged 3 yrs. 4 mos. 
Scott, Ransom, Sept. 6, 1828, aged 41. 

Julia Ann, Oct. 6, 1828, aged 1 yr. 6 mos. 

Thomas, son of David C. and Eliza, March 6, 1832, aged 7 months. 

Mrs., wife of Uri, Apr. 11, 1840, aged 81. 
Smith, Mary, wife of David, Oct. 28, 1822, aged 62. 
Sherwood, Orrin, March 31, 1840, aged 29 ; instantly fell dead when at his 

work, apparently in good health. 
Spring, Samuel Isaac, April 13, 1828, aged 35. 
Stoddard, Merab, Sept. 15, 1828, aged 28. 



76 HISTORY OF OXFOED. 

Sanford, John, Nov. 16, 1826, aged 51. 

Laura, daughter of Moses, April 16, 1822, aged 22. 

Jane, daughter of Harris and Emeline, March, 1836. 
Towner, Enos, son of Asael and Abigail, Feb. 27, 1832, aged 1 yr. and 8 mos. 

Mary, widow of Joseph, June 24, 1822, aged 67. 
Tomlinson, Hon. David, senator, Mar. 23, 1822, aged 60. 

Henrietta L., d. of David and Loveiia, Aug. 14, 1829, in her 22d year. 
Twitchell, Jerusha, wife of Capt. Gilbert, June 9, 1822. 
Tyrrell, Phinehas, formerly of Woodbridge, Nov. 27, 1822, aged 74. 
Wallace, John, May .30, 1840, aged 52. 

Juliann, wife of John, June 13, 1840, aged 51. 
Wheeler, Abel, Oct. 27, 1830, aged 65. 

Daniel, Oct. 1, 1821, aged 39. 

Ezra, April 4, 1840. 
Williams, Sabrina, May 20, 1825, aged 28. 
Wise, Nancy, August 23, 1827, aged 42. 
Wooster, Merit, 

Lois, widow of Thomas, Aug. 29, 1822, aged 94, 

Mary, daughter of Samuel, Feb. 13, 1823, aged 84. 

1S13. 

John Davis, 30. Col. Davis' son, 13. 

Lorenda Kimberly, 25. Andrew Smith, 47. 

Samuel Hitchcock's wife, 56. Widow Rachel Bristol, 72. 

James Baldwin, 50, Widow Esther Cande, 86. 

Philo Holbrook, 56. Capt, Bradley, 46. 

Miles Bassett, 50. Wait Bassett's wife, 27. 

Zeriah Riggs, 20. Isaac Bradley, 21. 

Elias Clark, 32. Bradley, 14. 

Samuel Bassett's wife, 48. David Smith's wife, 46. 

Philip, negro, drowned. Widow of Zadoc Sanford, 62. 

Esq. Wales's wife, 30. Chloe, negress, 50. 

John Sutton, 30. Dea, Buckingham's wife, 70. 
Reuben Chapman's wife, 34. 

Jared Buckingham, 81. Esq. John Riggs, 71. 

Nisa Morriss, 17. Gideon Perry, 82. 

Elisha Grriffiu, 82. Lois Hawkins, 65. 

Elnathan Lake, 75. Patty Towner, wife of David, 30. 

Lewis Minot, 70. Mary Elizabeth, d. of Noah and Rosa- 
Ebenezer Prindle, 81. lind Stone, Nov. 9, 1814. 

Joseph Wooster's wife, 31. John Riggs, Esq., June 18; 71. 

Samuel Eaton, 47. John Hawkins, 65. 



DEATHS. 



77 



David Tomlinson, Jr., 23. 
Widow of Thomas Osborn, 64. 
Widow Sanford, about 60. 

Elijah Smith's widow, 76. 
James Perry's wife, 77. 
Dea. Nathan Buckingham, 80. 
Aurelius Hyde's wife, 34. 
John Towner's widow, 67. 
Hannah Johnson, 45. 
Elnathan Lake's widow, 74. 
Widow Hannah Elton, 80. 
Esq. Riggs' widow, 69. 

Rosswell Perkin's wife, 21. 
Leverett Rigg's wife, 25. 
Nehemiah Durand's wife, 57. 
Zerviah Fairchild, 77. 
Widow Terrel, 86. 

Caleb Spencer, 30. 
Bened Burrall, 80. 
Chester Smith's wife, 44. 
Joseph Clark's wife, 48. 
Josiali Tucker's wife, 42. 
Gideon Chatfield, 62. 
Widow Eena Hyde, 82. 
Wm. Yates, 35. 
Erastus Cande, 32. 

Sheldon Wooster's wife, 33. 
James Cartier, 102, foreigner, p. 
Claudius Barthelimi's wife, 74. 
Jared Hawley's wife, 33. 
Justus Bristol's wife, 79. 
George Bennet's wife, 30. 
Betsey, daughter of Samuel Rig^ 

Enos Towner, Jan., 40. 
Capt. nine's wife, Feb., 67. 
John GritRn, Feb., 94. 



Daniel French's wife, Sarah, 60. 
Samuel Buckingham, 46. 
Marcus Hyde, 23. 

Eleazer Lewis, 84. 

Erastus Linos, 64, Nov. 15th. 

his wife, 67, Nov. — . 
Capt. Philo Beecher, 42. 
Abijah Wooster, 44. 
Abial Fairchild, 84. 
Capt. Andrew Buckingham's wife, 42. 
Gideon Tucker, 70. 

Joseph French, 57. 

Ellen Bunnel, 36. 

Widow Elizabeth Minot, 57. 

Baker's wife, 34. 

Capt. Joseph Loveland, 79. 

Abia Sharp, 24. 
Abner Johnson's girl, 20. 
Leman Wooster, 2L 
Caleb Cande's wife, 76. 
Alexander Johnson, 86. 
Laura Osborn, 27. 
Samuel Chapman, 60. 
Bowers Washband, 73. 

Philip, Esq. Tomlinson's negro, 36. 
Isaac Towner's wife, 30. 
Sherman Hatch, 67. 
Ephraim Andrews, 62. 
Curtis Jordan's wife, 28. 
And ten under 12 years. 
s, 17. 

Nathan Vose, March, 47. 
Joseph Wooster, Jr., May, 57. 
T. ScoviPs wife, July, 52. 



78 



HISTORY OF OXFORD. 



Dickerraan's girl, March, 18. 

Moses Rigg's wife, March, 55. 
BeDJamin Bradley, July, 65. 
Philo French, Aug., 19. 
John Button, Aug., 90, 
Martin Beebe, Sept., 04. 
Phineas Johnson, Sept., 90. 



William Vose's wife, July, 45. 
Lois Towner, Julj;, 32. 
William Church's wife, Oct., 54, 

and three children. 
Samuel Riggs' girl, iSTov. 15. 
Burton Tucker, Nov., 33. 
William Tomlinson, Nov., 47. 
Joseph Wooster's wife, Dec, 76. 



James Perry, 95. 
Justus Bristol, 83. 
Maria Peck, 22. 
Silas Hawkin's wife, 58. 
Widow Pangman, 53. 
Dr. Cande, Apr. 19, 75. 

Whiting Mitchell's wife, Jan., 50. 

John Smith, 60. 

Widow McN'eil, Mar., 78. 

Sarah Twitchell, 85. 

Jared Hawley's wife, April, 24. 

Peter Larkin, pauper, 64. 

Lyman Nichols, 49. 

Yelverton Perry, 83. 

Anna Wattlis, 21. 

Edward Riggs, July, 60. 

Ann Bunoull, 84. 
Jared Hawley, Esq., 40. 
Esther Beardsley, 74. 
Daniel Davis, 74, 
D. Tomlinson, Esq., 60. 
David Riggs, 57. 
Sherman Clark, April, 37. 
Henry Chatfield, 30. 
Widow O'Cain, 70. 
Gilbert Twichel's wife, 40. 

David Scott's wife, 24. 
Asahel Hyde's wife, 54. 
Nathan Davis, Feb 1, 69. 



David Scovil, 24. 
Widow of Pat Tomlinson, 54. 
Lydia Hawkins, Aug. 4, 87. 
Samuel Rigg's girl, 11. 
Billy Lum, 42. 



1^31, 



Eunice Bristol, Aug., 44. 
Widow Smith, Sept., 54. 
Daniel Wheeler, 40. 
James Perry's wife, 35. 
Betty Ragen, Oct., 57. 
Widow Joanna Wilmot, 85. 
John Hinman, Dec, 42. 
Chittenden Cande, 40. 
Mrs. Swift, 26. 



iJS^aS. 



Widow Mary Towner, 67, 
Lois Wooster, 94. 
Bennett Tomlinson, 23. 
Widow Dean, 88. 
Widow Mary Smith, 62. 
Widow Mary Hyde, 87. 
Burrit Harger, 16. 
Phebe Park, 71. 
Phinehas Terrell, 74. 



lSa3. 



Ephraim Hubbel's wife, 40. 
Widow Mary Wooster, Feb. 13, 84. 
Widow of Bowers Washband, 67. 



DEATHS. 



79 



Bazi], son of Capt. S. Cande, 25. 
Joshua Perry's wif(3,.April, 85. 
Joshua Perry, 87. 
Smith Washburn, May, 29. 
Moses Wheeler's wife, June, 74. 
David Towner, July 4, 43. 
John Riggs' wife, 85. 
Moses Sperry's wife, 38. 

Anna Bateman, widow, 63. 
Henry Wooster, about 50. 
Balera Touilmson, 21. 
Amos Clark, 48. 
Abigail Dutton, April, 92. 
Charles Hyde, June 20, 21. 

Wealthy Jones, 22. 
Luther French, 50. 

his wife, 54. 
Abel Waters' son, 20. 
Betsey Towner, id., 40. 
Widou- Abigail Nichols, March, 
Widow Cornish, 87. 

Asahel Hyde, 09. 

Lyman Scott, 54. 

Thomas Bassett, 2. 

Horace Cande, 2d, 4 months. 

Caroline Bunnell Stacy, 22. 

Koxaua Hine, 32. 

David Perkins, 04. 

Julia Fairchild, 30. 

Ellen McCnire, 3. 

Chickery Jeftery, a black, 45. 
Enos Towner, 2. 

Rockwell, 2. 

Lucy Perkins, 5. 
Thomas Scott, 7 months. 
Mary Ann Tomlinson, 31. 



Widow of Perry, 35. 

Moses Wheeler, 73. 
Yelverton Perry's wife, 70. 
Ln Hawkins' son, 22. 
Captain Jehial Hine, Dec, 02. 
Widow Coger, 74. 
William Seeley, 74. 
Lyon, 45. 

Neher Durand, 72. ' 
Mark Bassett, 23. 
Sebastian Dutton, Sept. 9, 24. 
Rachel Towner, 81. 
Jonathan Beers, about 80. 

Amos Bates' wife, June, 42. 
Sabrina Williams, about 30. 
Gilbert Osborn, July, 43. 
Samuel Tucker's wife, Aug., 09. 
Pierpont Riggs, Oct., 22. 
78. David Beach, Nov., 55. 
Ruth Wheeler, 30. 

Collins Chapman, 74. 
Catharine Harger, 6 months. 
Jesse Smith, 74. 
Jane Wooster, 5. 
Jennette Chatfield, 11. 
Mary Chatfield, 3. 

Seeley, 2. 

Jennet Hinman, .28. 
Susan Clark, 42. 

Widow Mary Andrews, 77. 
Beach Brothvvell, 37. 
John Bassett, 74. 
Anna Bunnell, GQ. 
Lois Johnson, 75. 
Lewis Buckingham, 21. 



Elihu Bates, Dec. 16, 1834, about 82. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 81 



BURIALS 

1 N 

ZoAR Bridge Cemetery. 



Edward Bassett, died Jan 21, 1841, aged 90 years. 

Daraarius, wife of Edward Bassett, died Feb. 24, 185G, aged 78. 

Anne, died October, 1870. 
Eliphas Bradley, died Aug. 19, 1843, aged 74. 

James, son of Whiting and Annie Bradley, died Sept 11, 1846, aged 19. 
Annie E., wife of Charles E. Bradley, died March 12, 18G3, aged 32. 
Mr. Nichols French, died Feb. IS, 1811, aged 25. 
Mr. Joseph N. French, died July 15, 1816, aged 57 years. 

Sarah French, relict of Joseph N. French, died Dec. 21, 1829, aged 72. 
Sheldon French, died Apr. 30, 1840, aged 57 years. 

Philo French, son of Joseph and Sarah French, died Aug. 15, 1819, aged 22. 
Leraan Clark, died May 29, 1859, aged 70. 
David French, died June 4, 1845, aged 49. 

Austin W., his son, died March 13, 1837, aged 14 months. 
Mr. John Hawkins, died Sept. 22, 1814, aged 69 years. 

Lois, his wife, died July 14, 1814, aged 65 years. 
Elijah Hawkins, died April 18, 1809, aged 8 months. 
Elizur M. Hawkins, died Nov. 26, 1823, aged 22. 
Lauren Hawkins, died Nov. 15, 1836, M. 38. 
Lee Hawkins, died March 17, 1860, aged 82. 

Sarah, his wife, died Dec 24, 1864, aged 93. 
Moses Hawkins, died Oct. 28, 1838, aged 57 years. 

Elizabeth, former relict of Moses Hawkins, died 23, 1851, aged 72 years. 

Mrs. Abigail Hull, wife of Mr. Abel Hull, died Sept. 29, 1805, aged 47. 
Stiles Judson, died Nov. 6, 1826, aged 52 years. 

Aner, wife of Stiles Judson, died Nov. 3, 1826, in her 52d year. 

Hetty, daughter of Stiles and Aner Judson, died Nov. 2, 1826, aged 21. 
Timothy Johnson, died August 26, 1844, aged 86. 

Olive, his wife, died May 9, 1844, aged 82. 
Mr. William Lewis, died Dec. 11, 1834, aged 76. 

Mrs. Martha Lewis, wife of William Lewis, died Jan. 26, 1835, aged 75. 



82 HISTORY OF OXFORD. 

Harriet E., daughter of Francis J. and Almira Lewis, died March 22, 1862, 

aged 3 years, 5 months and 15 days. 
Giles Loveland, died Nov. 22, 1866, aged 65 years and 10 months. 

Cornelia, daughter of Giles and Larinda Loveland, died Oct. 3, 1841, 
aged 5 years, 3 months and 16 days. 

Henry E., died Oct. 4, 1841, aged 3 years, 1 month and 1 day. 
Henry Lum, died May 26, 1857, aged 76. 

Deborah, wife of Henry Lum, died July 11, 1842, aged 60. 
Mr. Gideon N"orthrop, died April 20, 1818, aged 76. 
Truman Pool, died Aug. 28, 1818, aged 24 years. 
Grace A., wife of George B. Robinson, died May 8, 1846, aged 26. 
Andrew Gibson Scott, died Sept. 14, 1805, in the 33d year of his age. 

Susan, daughter of Andrew G. and Susan Scott, died Jan. 20, 1805, 
aged 17 months. 
Philander Sharpe, died Apr. 30, 1879, aged 73 years. 
Mrs. Sarah Sharpe, died May 10, 1860, aged 76 years. 
Eugene Sharpe, died Oct. 9, 1842, aged 32 years. 

Wyllis, son of Eugene Sharpe, died Fep. 24, 1818, aged 2 months. 

Nelson, son of Eugene Sharpe, died Sept. 10, 1819, aged 1 y. and 9 m. 
George Thomas Sharpe, died July 21, 1067, aged 56 years. 

Mrs. Betsey Sharpe, died Feb. 9, 1877, aged 57 years. 

Eugene, son of Geo. T. Sharpe, died Mar. 17, 1847, aged 1 year. 
John Sharpe, died Oct. 27, 1825, aged 46. 

Mrs. Catherine, wife of John Sharpe, died Feb. 3, 1815, aged 35 years. 
Thomas Sharpe, died Mar. 4, 1805, aged 58 years and 9 months. 

Mrs. Mary Treadwell, wife of Thomas Sharpe. 
Sarah, wife of Charles Betts and daughter of Ira and Hannan Sherman, died 

Feb. 25, 1836, aged 20 years. 
David Smith, departed this life Aug. 31, 1817, in the 46th year of his age. 
Captain Samuel Smith, died Dec. 7, 1874, aged 75. 
Flora, wife of Samuel Smith, died Jan. 26, 1802, aged 59. 
Isaac Smith, died Sept. 14, 1836, in the 60th year of his age. 

Sarah, relict of Isaac C. Smith, died March 28, 1846,aged 67. 
Mr. Elijah Smith, died April 4, 1805, aged 75 years. 

Mrs. Anna, relict of Mr. Elijah Smith, died Jan. 4, 1815, aged 73 years. 
George T. Stoddard, died Dec. 2, 1878, aged 59 years. 

Nellie M., daughter of Geo. T. and Mary Stoddard, died Feb. 3, 1864, aged 4. 
Royal G., son of George T. and Mary Stoddard, died Oct. 24, 1803, aged 6 m. 
Leroy G., son of George T. and Mary Stoddard, died Sept. 2, 1855, aged 2 y. 
Miss Abigail Tuttle, daughter of Caleb Tuttle, died June 27, 1811, aged 40. 
Amos Williams, died Feb. 5, 1845, aged 79. 
Mary J. Williams, died Feb. 22, 1839, in the 23d year of her age. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 83 

Joseph Wooster, born Dec. 11, 1776 ; died May 27, 185G, aged 79 years, 5 

months and 16 days. 
Elizabeth A. Wooster, wife of Joseph Wooster, died May 12, 1814, aged 34. 
Buried by her side four of their children, namely, Melisse W., David 
W., David W., Amarilla W. 
Seth C. Wooster, died April 28, 1834, aged 22 years ; George H. Wooster, 

died Feb. 22, 1834, aged 20 years ; sons of Sheldon Wooster. 
Sheldon Wooster, died Feb. 19, 1862, aged 76 years, 5 months, 25 days. 
Sally, wife of Sheldon Wooster, died Jan. 6, 1818, aged 34. 
Lucy Ann, wife of Sheldon Wooster, died June 6, 1860, aged 73. 
Samuel Wooster, born July 16, 1789 ; died July 8, 1872. 

Priscilla, his wife, born April 13, 1794; died Jan. 23, 1883. 

Clarissa, her mother, wife of Amos Williams, died 1.5, 1859, aged 

101 years, 1 month. 



OLD QUAKER FARMS CEMETERY. 



Leverett Candee, son of Horace and Caroline Candee, died Aug. 13, 1837, 

aged 13 years and 10 months. 
Gideon Chatfield, died April 23, 1817, in tlie 62d year of his age. 

Elizabeth, wife of Gideon Chatfield, died March 2, 1827, aged 65 years. 
Bennet, son of Gideon and Mrs. Elizabeth Chatfield, died Sept. 27, 1801, 

aged 3 years and 7 months. 
Sarah Chatfield, wife of Billy Chatfield, died July 14, 1843, aged 62 years. 
, Elijah Durand, died March 6, 1804, ^t. 73. 

Anna, his wife, died Oct. 7, 1801, ^t. 70. 
Betsey Maria, only child of William and Laura M. Griffin, died June 25, 

1860, aged 16 years, 10 months and 15 days. 
Elijah Harger, died March 20, 1840, aged 74 years and eight months. 
Sarah K., wife of Elijah Harger, died March 5, 1841, aged 68 years and 2 m. 
Burritt, son of Elijah and Sarah Harger, died Nov. 13, 1822, ^t. 16. 



84 HISTORY OF OXFORD. 

Ruth Harger, wife of Alfred Harger, died Jan. 1, 1852, aged 45. 

Catherine J., died June 24, 1831, sb. 6 months ; Edwin, died Sept. G, 1848, 

aet. 2 years ; children of Ruth and Alfred Harger. 
Ira Hawkins, died Jan. 8, 1853, aged 62. 

Sally, died Oct. 6, 1852, aged 58. 
Silas Hawkins, died Oct. 15, 1844, aged 88. 

Sarah Hawkins, wife of Silas Hawkins, died Feb. 24, 1820, aged 58. 
Lydia Thomas, wife of Nathan Taylor of Litchfield and Capt. Zachariah 

Hawkins of Oxford, died Aug 4, 1820, aged 87. 
Leonard A. Hotchkiss, died Sept. 4, 1865, aged 38. 

Elizabeth I., his wife, only daughter of Everett and Jane E. Hubbell, 
died Sept. 20, 1863, aged 32. 
Wales A. Hubbell, died May 16, 1866, aged 23 years. 

Jane E. Sperry, wife of Everett Hubbell, died Jan. 13, 1877, aged 66. 
Mary, wife of Abijah Hyde, died Oct. 15, 1822, aged 84 years. 
Wells Judson, died June 18, 1827, in the 73d year of his age. 

Ruth Judson, died Sept. 11, 1839, aged 64. 
Jonathan L, Nichols, died May 29, 1821, in his 49th year. 

Lois, wife of Jonathan L. Nichols, died March 29, 1847, M. 73. 

Sarah, daughter of J. L. and Lois Nichols, died April 20, 1868, JE. 71. 
Isaac Nichols, died March 5, 1806, M. 57. 

Mrs. Abigail, wife ot Isaac Nichols, died March 20, 1825, aged 77 years. 
Isaac Nichols, died Dec. 23, 1826, in his 57th year. 
Mary, wife of David Smith, died Oct. 8, 1822, aged 62 years. 
Silus Sperry, died July 26, 1850, aged 73. 

Lucinda, wife of Silus Sperry, died Sept. 1, 1849, aged 60. 
Zalmon Tomlinson, died July 1, 1805, aged 40. 

Patience, his wife, died May 15, 1820, aged 53. 

Nancy Tomlinscm, died March 12, 1831, aged 35. 

Balsora Tomlinson, died Feb. 26, 1822, aged 20 years. 
Mrs. Hannah Russel, wife of Timothy Russel of Oxford, died May 26, 1773, 

aged 76 years. 
M. David Woodin, died June 10, 1797, in the 61st year of his age. 

Mrs. Lorana Woodin, wife of M. David Woodin, died April 10, 1794, 
in the 53d year of her age. 
Joseph Wooster, died Dec. 18, 1819, in his 76th year. 

Samuel Wooster, his father, died Sept. 16, 1776, in his 70th year. 

Ann Wooster, his mother, died Sept. 14, 1791, in her 81st year. 

Hannah, his wife, died Dec. 11, 1835, aged 80 years. 

Dolly, his daughter, died Mar. 7, 1777, aged 3. 

David, his son, died Jan. 15, 1778, aged 3 years. 

Lucy, his daughter, died Nov. 20, 1783, aged 1 year. 



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V 



OXFORD 

Sketches and Records 



PART TWO. 



Compiled and Published by W. C. Sharpe, 

seymour, conn. 



RECORD PRINT, SEYMOUR, 
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OXFORD CENTER. 

The Center, as shown in the view, with the Congregational 
Church at the head of the upper green, and the church of St. Peter 
at the south of the lower green, and the lines of handsome residences 
on either side, is one of the prettiest villages in the state. At the 
right of the upper green is the Congregational parsonage, next to 
that is the Episcopal rectory, and a little further to the right long 
stood the village schoolhouse. On the right also, at the southerly 
angle of the road turning to the east was for many years the home 
of the village physician. 

At the left of the Congregational church is the fine old colonial 
residence of the late S. P. Sanford. On the west side of the street 
was for a century the village inn, the place of rest and refreshment 
for man and beast on the main road from the ports of New Haven 
and Derby to the towns far to the northwest. On the west side of 
the green also were the houses of the village postmaster and the 
Judge of Probate, while a little to the rear flowed quietly along a 
clear stream which at times fills its banks with a swollen and more 
turbulent current which then merits its name of Little River. 

All around the green from time to time as the years have passed 
have been the homes of some of the well-to-do and leading mem- 
bers of the community, shaded by the grand old elms and maples, 
the growth of a century, while the store and blacksmith shop and 
other industries were clustered near. The lower green, being level, 
was more especially the place for the annual assembly of the mili- 
tary company which was an established institution of the principal 
Connecticut towns in the olden time. 



THE EARLY SETTLEMENT. 

The land included in the bounds of the town of O.xford was 
purchased from the Indians at various times from 1678 to 1710, the 
principal deeds having been those of Wesquantuck (now shortened 
to Squantuck), Rockhouse Hill, Camp's Mortgage, the Quaker 
Farms Purchase, and the North Purchase. The date of the first 
settlement within the limits of the town has not been established, 



84 OXFORD. 

but as a tract of land in the westerly part of the town was desig- 
nated as the Quaker's Farm in 1683 it is evident that at least one 
white man had settled there before that date, and it is probable 
that other settlers had already made their homes in the verdant and 
fertile valleys. 

A well preserved document found at Quaker Farms some years 
ago gave a description of a la3'out of 170 acres "at Quaker's Farm" 
for Lieut. Johnson, made March 27, 1688, and refers to "the com- 
mon road" through "the place commonly called the Quaker's 
Farm." It is probable that there was a considerable number of 
settlers here before 1680, as it is recorded that in that year it had 
become necessary to establish the town bounds between Derby and 
Waterbury and on May i8th of that year the Plantations of Derby 
and Mattatuck appointed a committee to set the bounds. The 
latter appointed Wm. Judd, Thomas Judd and John Stanley, Jr., 
and Derby appointed Joseph Hawkins and Abel Gunn. They be- 
gan at a stack twelve miles north of Derby and went westerly "to 
a stone marked with m on ye north side and d on 'ye south side, 
lying on ye west sd nagatock (Naugatuck) or mattatock river," etc. 
If this was all a wilderness why the need of setting the boundaries 
at so early a date.'' On the other hand it is evident that the twenty 
miles between Derby and Mattatuck, which includes Oxford, was 
considerably taken up by settlers and that this gave occasion for 
the call for a settlement of the bounds. 

In 1683 Joseph Hawley of Stratford proposed to have his grant 
in Derby, then agreed upon, laid at Quaker's Farm, and in 1705, 
he exchanged land at Quaker Farms with Thomas Sharpe for land 
owned by the latter in Stratford. In 1699, (April 24th) Samuel 
Riggs' land was laid out by Samuel Riggs and John Tibbols on 
Five Mile Hill, six score rods on each side except the north, where 
it measured six score and fifteen rods; bounded southerly on land 
of John Hulls and John Tibballs, "westward with bous brooke so 
called, and northward with Wedow Denman & towns land, and 
estard with a Little Brooke that nmeth into the Little River." At 
the same date is described "Widdovv Denmans division of land and 
swamp in the great neck * * * southward on Samuel Riggs his 
land," etc. There is therefore abundant evidence that the History 
of Derby, page 229, is in error in saying that "The first permanent 
settler at Quaker's Farm was some time after 1707." 



THE EARLY SETTLEMENT. 85 

The records show that by January, 1710-11, a sufficient time 
had already elapsed from the first settlement at Quaker Farms for 
there to be confusion over the alotments of land to different pro- 
prietors to such an extent that action regarding it was taken in the 
Derb}' town meeting, and the records of the holdings which were 
made soon after indicate that there was then quite a prosperous 
settlement within the limits of this purchase. A few of them were 
as follows : 

John Chatfield, in 171 1, had his division "in the swamp upon 
the Five Mile Brook and the land adjacent, on the northward side 
of the path that goeth to Woodbury." 

John Tibbals, in 1711, had land "upon the great neck, on the 
east and westward side of the westward branch of the Five Mile 
Brook, bounded northward with Samuel Riggs and John Hull's 
their I^ands * * * and westward with Woodbury Road and com- 
mon land." 

John Hull's land was described May 14, 17 11, as "in Quaker's 
Farm Purchase on the east side of the country road not far from 
Quakers Farm, is bounded * * * westward by Woodbury road, 
north by land of Samuel Riggs," etc. 

John Pringle's land at Good Hill, over the Eight Mile Brook, 
was bounded west on Samuel Nichols' land, otherwise on undivided 
land, in 171 1. 
1/ Samuel Riggs is recorded as having his land Dec. 10, 171 1, on 

Five Mile Hill, bounded "southward with land of John Tibbals." 

The Quaker Farms Purchase extended easterly to the Nauga- 
tuck river, and beyond, and therefore included not only a large 
proportion of the southern part of Oxford, but a considerable part 
also of what is now Seymour, the Indian deeds overlapping one an- 
other. The list of names of proprietors in March, 172I, is here giv- 
en as the best available record of the heads of families here at that 

time. 

"Here followeth a list of names John Muns( n 18 

which is ye augmented List which is the En^ Nikols 90 

Rule for Devidini? the Lands in Quakers Joseph Nikols 33 

Farm Purchace that are yet undevided Abraham Person 72 7 - 

which is as followeth: Steaphen Peirson Juti' 76 10 

£ s. d. Steaphen Peirson Sn'' 78 - 

En^ Sam'! Ba^sif 28 - - M'- Pinto 29 - 

George Black 21 John Pringle 32 - - 

Sam" Bowers 76 12 - John Pringle 85 10 



86 OXFORD. . 

Sam". Brimsmaid 22 10 

Abiram Canfield 23 - 

JohnChatfield 113 - - 

John Davis 70 4 

Micah Deiiman 74 - 

M>^ Jobn Durand 87 12 

Francis French 135 

Abel Gunn 157 17 6 

Capt Sam" Gunn - - - 

Ebin : Barger 135 10 

Jabiz Harger 23 

Joseph Hawkins 201 15 

Jonathan Hill 21 

Deacon Abel Holbrook 129 7 6 

John Hull 103 3 

Capt Joseph Hull Jw 866 5 

James Humphres 25 - - 

Coll: Ebenezer Johnson 219 1 9 

Ebenezer Johnson 72 16 - 

Jeremiah Johnson 159 

John Johnson 49 10 

Joseph Johnson 43 - 

Peter Johnson 123 - 

Jonathan Lumm 70 4 

Sam" Moss 43 

W" Moss 147 15 



Ebin:Riggs 102 - - 

Edward Riggs 69 - - 

Lt John Riggs 240 18 

En^ Sam" Riggs bS 10 

Andrew Smith 132 6 

Ephraim Smith 36 

John Smith Jun' 20 

John Smith Sn^ 98 10 

Joseph Smith 46 10 

Benj: Stiles 26 5 - 

John Tibbals 123 2 6 

Abraham Tomlinson _ _ _ 

Isaac Tomlinson 192 

John Tomlinson 76 10 

Sam" Tomlinson 49 5 6 

W'" Tomlinson 58 10 

John Towner 48 - 

John Twitchel 78 

Sam" Washbon 74 2 

W»^ Washbon 117 

Jobn Weede 82 2 

Selvester Wooster 39 - - 

Tho'* Wooster 175 10 

Timothy Wooster 117 



5285 7 9 



The deed of the Wesquantuck and Rock House Hill purchase 
is here given as of interest as shownig what Indians until then were 
considered the owners of the land, the spelling being that of the 
original record and without punctuation other than the ver}- few 
marks there found. Weescantook and Weesquantook, later Wes- 
quantuck, will be recognized as the original of the present name, 
Squantuck, where the "Great River" flows about forty feet above 
the sea level, from whence in a distance of only a mile in a direct 
line there is a rise of 550 feet to the top of Rock House Hill. 

To all to whom these presents shall come Know y*^' that wee 
Neighbour Rutt Cockapaton Sachom Nonnawauk Gyousoon Keux- 
on Raretoon Tazchun Corroon Rashkannoot proprietors of Wees- 
cantook with y'' consent off our Saggamore for twenty pounds in 
hand rec'd & divers other & good consideracion us thereunto mov- 
ing have sold & do by these pres'" fully and absolutely sell alienat 
& assigne set over give grant & confirme unto Wm Tomlinson 
senior & Junior and y'' Widdow Hannah Tomlinson James Hard, 
Jonathan Lume Timothy Worster off Derby in his Majesties Col- 



THE EARLY SETTLEMENT. 87 

ony off Connecticott & y'' County of New Haven & their hcTS 
executors administraters & assignes a certaine tract off land call'd 
and known by y'' name off Weesquantook & Rochoushill bounded 
South with y*" four mile brook North with y'' 5 mile brook East 
with Woodbury road y* now is & West with the Great River for 
them y'' aforesaid Purchasers their heirs and assignes to have hold 
use occupy possess & enjoy as their own proper estate & Inher- 
itance from y'" date of these pres'^ for ever without any manner off 
lett hinderance molestation, disturbanc denyall challenge clayme 
evict'n ejection trouble or demand & w^ soever off or from us y" 
above said Indians or heirs executors or administrators or from or 
by any other person or persons for from by or under us affirming 
our selves to be ye true Propriaters off ye above sd tract of land & 
y* we have in our selves good right & full power to sell ye same & 
do free & clear & freely & clearly acquitt exonerate & discharge y*' 
above sd tract off land from all other & former gifts grants bar- 
gaines sales mortgages dowries joyntures wills entailes rents taxes 
& incumbrances whatsoever And we do further engage & covenant 
firmly by these pres^' for or selves our Heires executors & admin- 
istrators to & with y"" afor sd purchas their Heires & assigns to 
signe seal & deliver any other & former deed & conveyance off y*' 
afore s'' Tract off land as y'' sd Purchas their heires & assignes 
shall be advised by their Council learned in y'' law In witness 
wroff & for confirmation off all w''' wee have to these pres*' put 
to our hands & scales in Derby this fifthteenth off August 1698 

Neighbor Rutt x his mark 
Signed sealed & delivered in Cockapatouch x his mark 

y'' presence off us Nonnawauk x his mark 

Jno James Gyouson x his mark 

Eleazer Browne Keuxon x his mark 

Mawquash x his mark Raretoun x his mark 

Cheshconeeg x his mark Tazchun x his mark 

Rash koinoot x his mark 
Thomas sect x his mark 

The above nam'd Proprietors appeard before me & ac- 
knowledged y'' above written Instrument to be their act & Deed 

y'' date above 

Ebenezer Johnson Justice 

Ver a Copia 

Entered March 19 1700 lea 1701 



88 OXFORD. 

The "Camp's Mortgage" Purchase. 

Dec. 23, 1700, Ebenezer Johnson, Wm. Tomlinson and Samuel 
Riggs were appointed a committee to buy the mortgage of Nicholas 
Camp. On Jan. 13, 1702 it was voted "that y"" Indian mortgage 
bought off M'' Nicholas Camp off Milford shall be paid for by y*" 
Town of Derby, four pounds to be p'^." On Jan. 15, 1702 it was 
voted "That Capt. Ebenezer Johnson Ensigne Sam' Riggs Serjeant 
Brinsmead Jn" Bow^'* Timothy Worster & Jn" Riggs survey & 
measure y^ tract off y'' Indian Purchase bought off IvP Nicholas 
Camp off Milford." 

This purchase was confirmed by the Indians Mar. 5, 17O2, as 
follows, omitting the legal verbiage. 

"In confirmation of a mortgage made to M'' Nicholas Camp off 
Milford containing a certain tract off land lying and scituate within 
y" bonds of Derby bounded as specifi'd in that mortgage viz South- 
ward with Derby Purchase Westward w*'' a range of swamps near 
on to Moose hill Northward with a little River known and com- 
monly cal'd by y*" name of little River eastward with Naucatuck 
River w*"^ is a parcel off land ab* three mile square, be it more or 
less * * * give grant and confirme unto y'' town of Derby y*^ afore 
s'* Tract of land 5th of March 1702." 

This deed was signed by Cockapatani, sagamore; Ahuntaway, 
sachem; Will Dr, Rowangusook, Tijachome, Will Toto, Jn" Toto. 
The witnesses were Arkumi, Artownhood, Jn° James, Mary James. 

In 170 2-3 it was divided up among the proprietors, and high- 
ways four rods wide were laid out through it. 

AN EARLIER DEED OF THK S0LTHWE8T PART OF OXFORD. 

This Indentar made this sixt day of Agust in y'" year of our lord 
Christ one thousand Six hundred eighty & Seaven and in the third 
year of the Reign of our Soveraign Jaems the Second of england 
Scotland france & Ireland King defender of the faith &c: Between 
cockapatouce: John banks: Jack chebrook; stastecksam: & Sunka- 
qene: meshilling: tackamore: pussekes: & mamosen: cockapotane. 
wamunka: wecalope: Indians proprietars of wesquantack & putta- 
tuck & of the Land in the great Neck at Derby in the county of 
New Haven & Collony of Conecticut in New england one the one 
parties: & linete: Ebenezer Johnson edward woster & Abell Gunn 
agents for the town of derby in the county & collony afore s'' in 
Newengland wittneseth that we cockapotouce John banks: &c: the 
Indians above s'': for & In consideration of twenty one pound in 



OXFORD. 89 

good Indian pay to be paid att Mr, Nicoles Campes att Milford 
within six months from this date where with we doe confess our- 
Selves fully sattesfied contented & paid ; have sold & by these 
presents have freely clearly & absolutely Bargained & sold to the 
sd lieut eb: Johnson, ed: Woster & Abell gunn together with the 
inhabetants of Derby proprietors with them: one percell of land 
being & liing in the great Neck: at Derby: Bounded on the South 
east with the four mile Brook & another littel Brook y* fals into 
the littel River & Bounded North & North east with the little river 
that Runs into nagatuck.River: & Bounded north west & west with 
the eight mile Brook: & Bounded west & South west with the west 
chanill of puttatack River, & woodbury path from the six mile 
Brook to the four mile Brook: All this above mentioned land the 
above Said cockapatouce John Bankes: &c Indians and proprietares 
of the sd land doe fully freely Absolutely & clearly sell & alienate 
to the sd inhabatants of Derby," &c. 

Signed by Cockapatouce, John Banks, Joshua Lee, John Sristen, 
Jack, Cockapotany, Tackamore, Meshiling, Chebrook, Nanoques, 
Stastockam, Wanxacun, Sunkaquene, Wetupaco, Pusseckes, Nan- 
awag. 

The other "little brook y^ falls into the little river" is evidently 
the brook that Hows along the south side of Moose Hill. 

The following deed, given Jan 31, 17 10, appears to include the 
eastern part of the present town of Oxford. 

"In consideration of six pounds current silver money by Ens. 
Samuel and Lieut. Joseph Hull of Derby, agents *** have sold *** 
a certain tract of land bounded as follows, south by the Little river 
so called, westward by Woodbury bounded up to two chestnut 
trees marked, which are the bounds between Waterbury, Wood- 
bury and Derby, and then the line runs in the line dividing the 
township of Derby and Waterbury until it comes to the middle of 
Towantick pond, which is the northerly bounds of the land, thence 
Southwardly by marked trees until it comes to the brook that runs 
down the west side of Towantick hill unto the Little river. This 
deed was signed by Nanawaug, Jack, Charles, Tackamore, Mes- 
killing, Mackwash, Durgen, Ackcutrout. The Indian witnesses 
were Curens and Wattakis. 

The Rock House Hill and Five Mile Hill road appears to have 
been laid out before 1676, as on Feb. 28 of that year it is recorded 
that "At a meeting of the Committee appointed by the General 



90 OXFORD. 

court Ma}' P3, 1675. to state a place for a ferr)'' (at Derby) and a 
highway from it to Woodbury, after deciding about the ferry," 
also "The}^ do apoynt a highway of foure rods wide from the said 
fery by the Rivar Side upwards to wards Wodbery, unto the upper 
eand of the above said old feld and then up to the hollow at the 
upper eand of the said old feld unto the high way that is now used to 
wards wodbery," other records indicating that the highway referred 
to was over Great Hill. Rockhouse Hill and Five Mile Hill, and 
through Quaker Farms. 

The variations in the spellings of the Indian names was prob- 
ably due to the fact that in all cases they were written by white 
men, the Indians onl}' making their mark, and were doubtless 
written as they seemed to be pronounced, and varied by each who 
had occasion to write them, including the town clerks who copied 
the deeds upon the records. For instance the name of the Sachem 
Nonnawauk is also spelled Nonnawaug, Nannawaug, Nonawaux and 
Wonawak. Mauquash, the last sachem of the Pootatucks, is also 
written Mawquash, Mackwash and Mockwash. 

That some of the land in the Quaker Farms purchase was 
allotted to settlers as early as 1689'is evident from a record in 1703 
of a vote that Capt. Ebenezer Johnson have liberty to take up land 
in Quakers Farm Purchase, land not previously laid out, he to take 
up said land "according to his list that was when y*" land was 
pitched upon, viz: 1689, & upon y^ foregoing termes have y*" like 
priviledge with his neighbors there." 

The prices of produce to be received in payment of the tax of 
one penny on the pound in 1703 were — wheat 6d. per bushel, rye 
4d, Indian (corn) 3d, oats 2d, tiax gd per pound. 



OXFORD. 91 



Punkups, Pleasant Vale, Riverside and Zoar Bridge. 



The valley on the easterly side of the Housatonic river, from 
the Five Mile Brook to and for some distance above' Zoar Bridge, 
was known for more than half a century as Punkups, as it still is 
by some of the older people of the surrounding territory. Eight 
Mile Brook was the dividing line between the towns of Oxford and 
Derby, and in consequence the people south of the line went to 
Derby to vote, while those north of the line voted in Oxford, and 
as in the earlier times the lines of demarcation was not always 
closely observed, some took their choice of a voting place and 
went to the nearest. 

Derby was a Whig town, while Oxford was Democratic, and 
this with other reasons was incentive enough to incite a sterling 
old Democrat named Lum, familiarly known as " Uncle Harry," 
to engineer a set off that should put all of Punkups and part of 
Squantuck into the town of Oxford. 

Punkups at that time was a flourishing neighborhood. There 
was a woolen mill, a foundry, an axe factory, an auger factory, a 
bellows factor3\ a cotton mill, a sawmill and a tannery. The tan- 
nery had its own primitive arrangement for grinding bark. A huge 
circular block of granite was leveled on the surface and over the 
bark, laid on this, a granite wheel about a foot thick and five feet 
in diameter was rolled to crush the bark, just as apples were 
crushed in the ring mill of that day. A ring mill was a circular 
trough into which the apples were put and a circular disk made of 
wood, weighing some hundred pounds, propelled by a horse hitched 
to the end of a pole that went through the center of the wheel, as 
a shaft, crushed the apples. As the season for making cider was a 
short one the ring mill in this case was available the larger part of 
the year for crushing bark for the tannery. 

But the progress of events changed Punkups. The old indus- 
tries mostly languished and died out. 

About 1840 two brothers, Webb and Beach Downs, from Mon- 
roe, entered on the scene. They had built by contract a break- 



PUNKUPS, PLEASANT VALE, RIVERSIDE AND ZOAR BRIDGE. 93 

water at Black Rock, near Bridgeport, and had thereby cleared 
three or four thousand dollars. With this capital Beach took the 
sawmill at Punkups, and as he and Webb owned land across the 
river they conceived the idea of moving Zoar bridge down where it 
would be convenient for them to bring their logs over. The Zoar 
bridge was then a big covered bridge. This they took down and 
moved it down, but without thinking it necessary to buy the stock 
of the bridge company. The result was that when they applied for 
a charter and toll rates the old company opposed them on the 
ground that they were within a mile of the place where the old 
company was exclusively authorized by the legislature to collect 
toll. The Downs bridge was then nearl}' a mile and an eighth 
from the original location, but the charter of the old company did 
not restrict them to the exact location and they could if they chose 
build further south and this would preclude the proprietors of the 
Downs bridge from getting a permit to collect toll. 

A charter for the Downs bridge was therefore refused, and as 
the old company immediatel}' built a new bridge for the accommo- 
dation of Zoar people, the Downs bridge was thrown open to the 
public. It was a losing game and the Downs brothers never recov- 
ered from the financial loss. The bridge was carried away by a 
flood Nov. 13, 1853, and only small remains of the old abutments 
mark the place where it stood, a few hundred feet above Otter 
Rock. 

Early in the nineteenth century it occurred to the inhabitants 
of Punkups that some kind of a place of rendezvous was desirable, 
and, as a church was the proper thing, one was built on the " bee" 
plan. Some gave land, others timber, others labor, and a few 
money. 

The only stated services for years were by Methodist ministers, 
who, "riding the circuit," came around once a month or oftener. 
Between times anybody occupied the church. Mormon apostles, 
Quakers, Second Adventists, and, in one case, a man who talked 
in an unknown tongue. 

The only regularly organized religious society in the neighbor- 
hood came to be the Pleasant Vale M. E. Society. There being 
no objections, in process of time as services increased monthly to 
fortnightl}^ and later to weekly, the society practically occupied 
the church. A vote was taken to turn the old building over to the 
Methodist Episcopal presiding elder for the district, but the vote 



94 OXFORD, 

was said to be invalid, and the record of the vote being afterward 
burned, the building was still a neighborhood affair. 

When a compan}' was chartered to build a dam in the Housa- 
tonic below the church the question of legal ownership of the 
church became a practical one, and in the dilemma the general 
assembl}' chartered The Stevenson Union Church Association, 
giving the building to the corporation, in "trust, for the benefit of 
the people in the neighborhood. 

While Punkups was the name of the localit}-, the first postoffice 
was located in a little store at the east end of, Zoar bridge and the 
postoffice was named Zoar Bridge. 

Years later the Postoffice Department issued an order forbidding 
the keeping of mail in a room where intoxicating liquors were sold. 
As the Zoar Bridge postoffice was in a store in which liquors were 
sold, as well as groceries, the postoffice could no longer be kept 
there and in order not to lose the postoffice. R. S. Hinman, the 
proprietor of the "Pleasant Vale Boarding School for Boys," 
about a mile south of the bridge, took the office, and in doing so, 
changed the name to Pleasant Vale. 

A few 3'eais later the boarding school was sold, and, as the pro- 
prietor was about to resign his office of postmaster, he received 
notice from the postoffice department that Pleasant Vale was so 
nearly like Pleasant Valley, a postoffice in Litchfield county, that 
it was necessary to change the name. The new postmaster chose 
the name of Riverside. Ten years later he resigned, and, as there 
were some who preferred the old name — Zoar Bridge, that was 
again made the name of the postoffice. 

A few 3'ears later the building of a railroad up the west side of 
the Housatonic and the establishment of a postoffice at the sta- 
tion, Stevenson, did away with the postoffice at the end of Zoar 
bridge. Until this time the mail had been brought from Derby by 
market wagon, sometimes once a week, and again twice a week, 
Tuesday and Friday. 

As the hour of its arrival was uncertain there was a world of 
comfort taken sitting in the dingy old store and discussing current 
events, both neighborhood and national, while waiting for the 
mail, but this excuse was now lost, and the store lost its popularity 
and was discontinued. The Riverside school district is still known 
by that name in Oxford. 1-2-10 



PUNKUPS, PLEASANT VALE, RIVERSIDE AND ZOAR BRIDGE. 95 

Zoar bridge still exists as shown herewith. The first bridge 
here is said to have been built before 1800, and the bridge com- 
pany incorporated and rates of toll established. The bridge 
was known as the Ezekiel Curtiss bridge about as much as Zoar 
bridge. It was built with logs bolted together for the sides, 
and was carried away by an ice freshet in 1835. In 1837 Elisha 
Hubbell built another bridge and kept the store at the east end, 
beside collecting the toll at the bridge. In 1840, at the time 
of the removal of the bridge by the Downs brothers, the following 
notice appeared in the New Haven Palladium of Jan. gth: 

ZOAR BRIDGE.— Notice is hereby ^iven. that a petition has been brought to the General 
Assembly to be holden at New Haven in May next. (1840). for an act of incorporation authoriz- 
inj; the Petitioners, or such others as may be willing to associate, to build a bridge over the 
Ousatonic River, at or near the former site of Zoar Bridge, lately taken down; with liberty to 
take such reasonable toll as may be established by the General Assembly. Dated at Monroe, 
the 28th day of February. 18-10. 

About 1842 Mr. Hubbell took Edwin Wooster in company with 
him. This Wooster was the man who went over the Derby dam 
in a scow and lost his life. In 1845 William A. Bradley took the 
store and collected the toll, until April i 1848, when George Sharpe 
took the place and remained there six years. The store was on the 
north side at the end of the bridge, and on the south side was a 
house which was occupied by the bridge tender and his family. 
The bridge tender hired the bridge by the year, and collected the 
toll, his profit being in what he collected over and above the yearly 
rental. 

On November 13, 1853, there was a great freshet which washed 
down the west end abutment and one third of the bridge went off, 
but it was immediately rebuilt, Philo Smith being the boss builder. 

April 30, 1854, there was a freshet about two inches higher than 
the one in the preceding November, partially undermining the 
w^est pier so that it settled down eighteen inches. These were the 
two highest freshets ever known, said old folks who were eighty 
years old at that time. Walter Bradley, now living at Stevenson, 
was there and crossed the bridge when the water was at the highest 
mark, leading his horse across, and the water was running in the 
road between the barn and the east end of the bridge. 

Wm. A. Bradley rented it again for three years, from April i, 
1854, to April I, 1857. In February, 1857, an ice freshet carried 
off one pier and two thirds of the bridge, but it was rebuilt the 
same year, and in the spring of 1858 George Sharp hired it again 



96 OXFORD. 

for three years. Charles Smith followed for a term, and others, 
until 1875, when it was carried off again, and then the stock com- 
pany decided not to rebuild it. Wm. A. Clark of Monroe owned 
the majority of the stock, and the vote went as he said. Wm. A. 
Bradley bought Clark out and he set out to have the towns of 
Oxford and Monroe rebuild, and there was some controversy over 
it. Bradley employed Judge Munson of Seymour, and the two 
towns decided to rebuild rather than stand a lawsuit over it, and a 
suspension bridge was decided on as less likel}' to be carried away 
by a freshet. It was built in 1876, at a cost of $13,225.78, the 
towns of Oxford and Monroe each paying one half of the expense. 
After it was built by the towns Charles Gilbert rented it (as the 
highest bidder) for three years or until it was transferred from the 
towns to the counties. The towns were authorized to take tolls 
until it passed over to the counties, when the charter was annulled 
by the Legislature, and the tolls were abolished, the bridge being 
kept in repair by the two adjacent counties. 



OXFORD TAXPAYERS IN 1792. 



97 



OXFORD PEOPLE IN 1792, 

The following is a copy of the tax list of the town of Oxford on 
the list of 1792, and is of interest as showing who were the landed 
proprietors and heads of families at that date. The warrant was 
directed to Josiah Strong, "Collector of the Town Rate of Derby, 
for the Society of Oxford," and was laid on an assessment of four 
pence on the pound. The warrant was signed by John Hum- 
phreys, Justice of the Peace. 



Jabez Bacon, 


£— 


Moses Cande, 


£31 17 6 


Enoch Baley, 


25 16 


Caleb Candee, 


77 3 9 


Eliakim Bardsley, 


55 10 6 


Job Candee, 


29 2 6 


Justus Barnes, 


18 


Abijah Chatfleld, 


85 13 3 


Abraham Bassit, 


63 12 


Benajah Chal field. 


30 6 


Edward Bassit, 


20 14 9 


Gideon Chatfleld, 


43 7 


Job a Bassit, 


54 6 8 


Isaac Chattield, 


38 15 


John Bassit, Jr., 


41 16 6 


John Chatfleld, 


21 2 


Samuel Bassit, Jr., 


30 6 


Samuel Chatfleld, 


31 13 


Truman Bassit. 


10 


William Church. 


39 6 3 


T. Miles Bassit, 


28 


Abel Clark, 


23 1 3 


Elisha Bates, 


44 16 6 


George Clark, 


24 9 6 


Lewis Blackmau, ^ 


23 


Hezekiah Clark, 


57 7 6 


Johu Botchford, 


20 5 3 


Thomas Clark, Esq., 


116 


Charles Bradley, 


10 16 6 


Thomas Clark, Jr., 


79 16 3 


Isaac Br>an, 


49 10 


John Davis, 


53 5 


Andrew Buckingham, 


26 17 6 


Elijah Durand, 


68 16 6 


Ebenezer Buckingham, 


46 13 


Joseph Durand, 


26 3 


Ebenezer Buckingham, Jr., 


26 12 6 


Nehemiah Durand, 


35 12 


Natban Buckingham, 


92 9 


Osee Dutton, 


7 2 


Charles Buunel. 


23 7 3 


Abial Fairchild, 


65 15 9 


Isaac Buunel, 


7 8 3 


Nathan Fairchild, 


61 18 9 


John Bunnel, 


18 


Daniel Finch, 


27 9 


Luke Bunnel, 


20 19 3 


Nathan Frt^nch, 


48 5 6 


Reuben Bunnel, 


20 


Sherman Hatch, 


20 11 3 


William Bunnell, 


29 


Elijah Hawkins, 


53 16 6 


Benedict Burwell, Jr., 


18 


Silas Hawkins 


39 6 


David Cande, 


9 


Zachariah Hawkins, 


69 6 9 


Euos Cande, 


2 1 3 


Hial Hine, 


49 6 


Gideon and Medad Cande, 


43 6 6 


Ebenezer Hoadley, 


14 15 6 


Justus Cande, 


47 8 


Joseph Hubbel, 


21 16 



Richard Hubbel, 

Abel Hull, 

Silas Curtiss, Huutington, 

Andrew Hurd, 

William Hurd, 

Abijah Hj'de, 

Asel Hyde, 

Daniel Hyde, 

Joseph Hyde, 

Nathan Hyde, 

Abner Johnson, 

Ebenezer Johnson, Jr., 

Ezra Johnson, 

Jeremiah Johnson, 

Timothy Johnson, 

Selah Judd, 

EInathan Lake, 

Dorman Leavenworth, 

Amzi Lewis, 

Asahel Lewis, 

Eunice Lewis, 

Silas Lewis, 

William Lewis, 

William Lewis, Jr., 

Z^'bel()n Line's, 

William Little, 

Noah R. Lyman, 

Mary Merwin, 

Lewi.s Mvnott, 

Isaac Nichols, 

Jared Osborn, 

Joseph Osboin, 

Joseph O-born, Jr., 

Joshua O. born, 

Thomas Osborn, 

Nathan Pangman, 

Daniel Perkins, 

Ethel Perkins, 

Ethel Perkins, 

Roger Perkins, 

Caleb Perry, 

Gideon Perry, 

James Perry, 

James Perry and son, 

Eli Person, 

Anne Riggs, 

David Riggs, 



OXFORD. 




£39 13 6 


Eb^^nez^'r Riggs, 


£69 18 6 


45 3 


3 


Edward Riggs, 


29 8 6 


11 12 




John Ritrgs. 


107 6 


9 19 




■iWoses Riggs, 


88 7 


2 U» 




Samuel Rigys, 


27 


85 18 


6 


Zadock San ford, 


36 5 


43 18 6 


Asahel Scott, 


21 


26 




Jesse Scott, 


23 7 6 


46 9 




David Smith, 


21 7 6 


19 




David Smith. Jr. 


24 10 


29 18 


6 


David Smith, 3d, 


24 


111 18 


9 


Elijah Smith, Jr., 


40 12 6 


21 




Gershom Smith, 


21 


35 2 


6 


John Smith, 


22 


9 18 6 


Jonathan Sperry, 


13 17 


38 5 




Josiah Strong, 


62 15 


5 13 




David Tomlinson, 


114 12 6 


21 




Noah Tomlinson, 


22 13 3 


5 4 




Noah Tomlinson, Jr. 


43 12 


12 4 


6 


John Towner, 


58 19 6 


4 18 




Joseph Towner, 


3 6 


27 15 




Rachel Towner, 


1 4 


22 1 


6 


Daniel Treat, 


45 15 3 


29 10 




Josiah Tucker, 


18 


18 




Samuel Tucker, Jr. 


23 4 


25 2 




Bt^njamin Twichel, 


41 2 6 


20 18 




David Twichel, 


10 


59 11 


3 


David Twichel, 


29 10 6 


18 18 




David Twichel, Jr., 


82 8 


104 15 




Ebenezer Twichel, 


26 9 9 


39 1 




John Twichel, 


49 8 9 


53 1 


6 


Joseph Twichell, 


87 10 6 


40 15 




Stephen Warner, 


2 16 6 


31 




Josiah Washburn, 


91 17 6 


133 9 


9 


James Wentworth, 


21 


32 2 


6 


Elisha Wheeler, 


27 


48 19 




Samuel Wheeler, 


80 19 6 


55 15 


6 


Samuel Wheeler, Jr., 


39 5 


1 10 




Walker Wilmott, 


6 15 


38 7 


6 


Charles Wooden, 


18 10 


20 




David Wooden, 


46 15 6 


72 13 


9 


Salmon Wooden, 


18 


1 




William Wooden, Jr., 


29 9 


52 16 6 


Susannah Woodruff, 


4 16 


50 17 




Arthur Wooster, 


79 9 


59 4 


6 


Ebenezer Wooster, 


119 15 


14 17 




Elisha Wooster, 


27 2 



Isaac Wooster, 

John Wooster, Esq., and son, 
Joseph Wooster, 
Nathaniel Wooster, 
Nathan Wright, 

ASSESSMENTS. 

Gideon and Medad Cande, 

Job Cande, 

Dr. Osee Dutton, 



5 6 



TAX LISTS IN 1792-5. 

Hial Hine, 
Jes.se Scott, 
Jnsiah Strong:, 
David Tomlinson, 
Noah Tomlinson, 
Nathaniel Wooster, 



99 



£21 

133 
72 8 
23 11 
21 



5 
5 

10 



£5 

5 

15 

£25 

5 

5 



The foregoing is a true copy taken 
out of Derby Grand List of the year 
1793. 

Test John Humphrey, Clerk. 



A later list without date contains seventy-one new names, and 
other variations are — Wooding^ instead of Wooden, Ebenezer Riggs 
has the title of Deacon, Joseph Osborn is Captain, and the Jnr. 
is omitted after the name of Ebenezer Johnson. There is a line 
"Samuel and Samuel Chatfield," seeming to indicate that there 
were two of the name, probably father and son, taxed together; 
Ethiel Perkins (Ethel in previous list) moved to Vermont in 1795; 
Timothy Johnson died Aug. 29, 1796 : and David Twitchell Jan. 
19, 1796 ; so that the list would appear to have been made out 
early in 1795. The Isaac Bunnel named in the earlier list is supposed 
to be the one who enlisted at Waterbury and served in the Revolu- 
tionary War. The new names in this later list were as follows : 



Simeon Andrews. 
Elihu Bates. 
Abraham Beecher. 
Isaac Beecher, 
Deacon Daniel Bennit. 
Gideon Buckingham. 
Isaac Bunnell, Jr. 
Benedick Burritt. 
Daniel Candee. 
Nehemiah Candee. 
Samuel Candee. 
Eli Chatfield. 
Oliver Chatfield. 
John Churchel. 
Silas Constant. 
Joseph Davis. 
John Durand. 
David Fabrieque. 
Thomas Fling. 
Amos Fox. 
John Goodsell. 
John Griffin. 
Edward Hawkins, 
John Hawkins, 



John Hide. 

Andrew Hierd, Stratford. 
Samuel Hitchcock. 
Joseph Holbrook. 
Abigail Johnson. 
Daniel .Johnson. 
William Jordain. 
John Lewis. 
Samuel Lewis. 
Nciboth Osborn. 
Samuel Patterson, 
Mary Perkins. 
Arthur Perry, Ripton. 
Yelverton Perry. 
David Person. 
Nathan Persons. 
Ebenezer Plant. 
Richard Plat. 
Stephen Plat. 
Capt. Ebenf Riggs. 
Dea. Ebeni" Riggs. 
James Riggs. 
John Riggs, Jr. 
Joseph Riggs. 



Lowis Riggs. 
Abigail Shelton. 
Richard Smith. 
Samuel Smith, Jr. 
Charles Strong. 
Aaron Tharp. 
Edmund Treat. 
Phllo Treat. 
Israel Trowbridge. 
Daniel Tucker, Jr. 
Gideon Tucker. 
Samuel Tucker, Sr. 
Gideon Tuttle, 
Enoch Twitchell. 
Jabez Twitchell. 
David Wells. 
Robert Wheeler. 
John Williams. 
Daniel Wilmot. 
David Woodruff. 
Abel Wooster. 
Joseph Wooster, Jr. 
Thomas Wooster. 




Sethi Den Kails. 



OXFORD RECORDS. lOI 



MARRIAGES IN QUAKER FARMS 
By Squire David Tomlinson, from 1799 to 182 1. An exact 
copy of the original record kept by him. 

Married by the Subscribing authority on the First Day of Oct. 

1799, Moses Riggs and Eunice Clarke, both of Oxford. 

David Tomlinson, Jus. of Peace. 

Married on the 25th Day of Dcembr, 1799, Elijah Wooster of 
Salim to Anna Bunnell of Oxford, Both of New Haven County, by 
me. David Tomlinson, Just, of Peace 

Married by the Subscribing authority on the 25 Day of Febry, 

1800, Phineas Trussle To Rachel Perry, both of Oxford. 

David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 

Married by the Subscribing authority on the 5th Day of Novem- 
ber, 1801, Wooster Clark of Oxford to Nancy Severance, of Derby, 
in New Haven Count3\ David Tomlinson, Just, of Peace. 

Married by the subscribing authority on the 17th Day of Sept., 

1803, Mr. Noble Baldwin of New Milford to Miss Mary Hinman of 
Oxford. Oxford, Sept. 17th, 1803. 

David Tomlinson, Just, of Peace. 
Married by the subscribing authority on lOth Day of March, 

1804, Sheldon Wooster To Sabre Perr}', both of Oxford- 

David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace, 
Married by the subscribing authorit}^ on the 4th Day of Octo- 
ber, 1804, Curtis Lum of Southbury To Eunice Hawkins of Oxford. 

David Tomlinson, Just, of Peace. 
On the 9th Day of January, 1805, Garshom Wells of New Town 
in Fairfield Count3% to Hannah Hawkins of Oxford in New Haven 
County. David Tomlinson. Justice of Peace. 

Married by the subscribing authority on the 12th day of July. 

1805, Belden Burt of Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield, to Le- 
vina Johnson of Southbury in Litchfield County. 

David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 
On the first day of September, 1805, James Lum of Southbury 
in Litchfield County to Lucy Hawkins of Oxford in New Haven 
Countv, 



102 MARRIAGES, 

On the r6th day of December, 1805, James Green to Althea 
Hawkins, both of Oxford in New Haven County. 

On the 31st day of December. A. D. 180s, Sheldon Wooster to 
Sally Hull, both of Oxford. 

On the 17th day of May, A. D. 1806, Philo Wooster of Skohary 
in the State of New York to Sally Hawkins of Oxford. 

On the 24th day of August, A. D. 1806. Isaac Hull to Diana 
Skeels, both of Oxford. 

On the 8th da}^ of November, 1806. Richard Hawley of South- 
bury in Litchfield County to Hannah Peck of Derby in New Haven 
County. 

On the 8th day of November, 1806, Stephen Tread well to Sally 
Richardson, both of Oxford in New Haven County. 

On the 3d day of September. 1807, Sheldon Bunnel to Ana 
Morehouse, both of Oxford in New Haven County. 

On the 7th day of September, 1807, Judson Perry of Southbury 
in New Haven County to Ana Segor of Huntington in Fairfield 
County. 

Married on the 21st day of June, A. D. 1810, Mr. Eliot Bassett 
of Oxford to Miss Sally Pangmon of said Oxford. 

Married on the 6th day of January, 181 1, by the subscriber, Al- 
son Hendrix of Southbury to Cyntha Bunnel of Oxford. 

David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 

Married by the subscriber on the 5th day of May, 181 1, Arad 
Skeels to Sybila Wooden, both of Oxford. 

David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 

Married on the 8th day of July, 181 1, by the subscribing auth- 
ority, David Mallery of Cornwil in the County of Litchfield to Su- 
sanna Botsford of Oxford. David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 

Married bv the subscribing authority on the second day of Sep- 
tember 181 1, John Durand to Betsy Clark, both of Oxford. 

David Tomlinson. Justice of Peace. 

On the 1 2th day of July, 18 12, Mr. Lorrins Perce of Southbury 
to Miss Polly Bennett of Oxford. 

David Tomlinson. Justice of Peace. 

On the I2th of January, A. D. 1813, Asahel Stilson of Bethli- 
ham in Litchfield County to Hannah Hull of Oxford in New Haven 
County. David Tomlinson, Justice of the Peace. 

On the 24th day of January. A. D. 1814, Ezra Wheeler of 
Huntington to Polly Bebee of Oxford. 

David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 



MARRIAGES BY SQUIRE DAVID TOMLINSON. I03 

On the I2th day of February, 1814, Chester Bunnell to Roxy 
Dunning, both of Oxford in New Haven County. 

David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 
On the loth day of June. A. D. 1814, John Garrett to Anna 
Bugbee of Oxford in New Haven County. 

David TomHnson, Justice of Peace. 
On the nth day of March, 1821, Henry Hoyt of Danburv to 
Pruela Hendrix of Oxford in New Haven County. 

David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 
Married on the 23d day of November, 182 1, by the subscribing 
authority, Philo Bassitt to Nancy Bryan, both of Oxfoid in New 
Haven County. David Tomlinson, Justice of Peace. 



FROM THE RECORDS OF ST. PETER's CHURCH. 

BAPTISMS. 

Miss Betsey Elizabeth Leek, adult, June 27, 1847. 

Frederick Ray, son of Thomas C. Osborn, June 27, 1847- 

Julia, daughter of Enos Chatfield, June 27, 1847. 

Mary Louisa, Ellen, Sarah Martha, Charles Ward, children of Vic- 
tory Lounsbury, July 11. 1847. 

George Washington, son of Coggswell, July 11, 1847. 

George Henry, son of Maria Morris, Nov. 13, 1847. 

Albert William, Franklin Miles, Charles Hudson, Mary Jane, chil- 
dren of David R. Lum, Feb. 27, 1848. 

James Tyler, Elisha Wheeler, children of Elisha W. Gedney, May 
28, 1848. 

Nathan Anthony, Maria Elizabeth, Polly Ann, children of Mrs. 
Elizabeth R. Styles, May 28. 1848. 

Mary Ellen McLean, adult, July 9, 1848. 

Sarah Jane, daughter of John Beecher, Sept. 3, 1848. 

Roswell Hanford. Glover Wheeler, Hannah Jennette, children of 
Roswell Cable, Sept. 3, 1848. 

Horace Scott Cable, adult, Sept. 9, 1848. 

Charles Abner, Catherine Ann, children of H. S. Cable, Sept. 9, 1848. 

Mary Maria, adult, Jane Augusta, children of Mr. Peck of Wood- 
bridge, Sept. 17, 1848. 

Orlando Cable, son of Joel Osborne, Sept. 17, 1848. 

Henrietta Mary, daughter of Hiel Botsford, Oct. 13, 1848. 

84-n-06. 



I04 FROM THE RECORDS OF ST. PETER's CHURCH. 

INFANT BAPTISMS. 

Elsie Maria, Alice Jane, children of Nelson B. and Maria Williams, 

Sept. I, 1850. 
Eunice Frances, Elizabeth Jane, Mary Ann, Atwater Bryant, chil- 
dren of Atwater and Elizabeth Ann Treat, Sept. i, 1850. 
Huldah Elizabeth, daughter of Chauncey M. and Minerva B. 

Hatch, Sept i, 1850. 
John Thomas, Louisa Antoinette, Helen Mae, Mary Gilbert, chil- 
dren of John B. and Mary Ann Bassett, Sept. i, 1850. 
Mary Elvira, daughter of Ransom and Maria Hudson. Sept. 1850. 
Elizabeth Adelaide, daughter of Washington and Adeline Benham, 

Sept. I, 1850. 
Francis Ann, George Smith, children of Smith and Ann M. Gunn. 

Sept. I, 1850. 
Mary Sophia. Henry Samuel, children of Elisha and Eliza Wheeler, 

Oct. 26, 185 1. 
Franklin Lewis, son of Lewis and Lucinda Davis, Oct. 26, 1851. 
Henrietta Eliza, daughter of Horace and Ann Tomlinson Cable, 

Oct. 26, 185 1. 
Frederick Kellogg, son of Harry and Mary Antoinette Sutton, Oct. 

26, 185 1. 
Samuel Allen, son of John B. and Mary Ann Bassett, June 24. 1853. 
Virgil, Homer, Leonidas, Harry, Floyd Frost, children of Edward 

B. and Angelina T. Hitchcock, July 3, 1853. 
Eliza Irene, daughter of Lyman and Maria J. Terrell. July 3, 1853. 
David Hotchkiss, Mary Henrietta, children of Frederick Augustus 

and Louisa Augusta Candee, Oct. 3, 1853. 
Julia Elizabeth, Lilian, children of Wilson H. and Julia E. Clark, 

Sept. 17, 1854. 
Idella Maria, Elijah Burt, children of Atwater and Elizabeth Ann 

Treat, Sept. 17, 1854. 
Lucy Ann, Frances, children of Moody A. and Ellen Jane Brown, 

Sept. 17, 1854. 
Frank Alonzo, son of Alonzo and Lavinia L. Leek. Nov. 21. 1854. 
Elizabeth Amanda, dau. of Alonzo and Lavinia L. Leek, Nov. 28. '54. 
Frank Albert, son of Harry and Mary Antoinette Sutton, Mar. 23. '55. 
Jeanetta Adeline, Louisa Elizabeth. Frederick Catlin. children of 

Frederick Augustus and Louisa Augusta Candee. Mar. 23. 1855. 
Frances Electa, dau. of Frederick and Sarah Caples. April 16, '55. 
Frederick Lewis, son of Atwater and Elizabeth Treat, May 11, '56. 



INFANT BAPTISMS. '^5 

Alfred Newton, son of Elishaand Eliza Ann Wheeler, May i8, 1856. 
Henry, Emma, children of David and Mary Hawley, May 18, 1856. 
Sarah Eliza, dau. of Stiles and Mary Amanda Fairchild, May 18, '56. 
Lucy Aldane Davis, William Otis Davis, Dec. 28, 1858. 
George Augustus Candee, Dec. 28, 1858; Louisa A. Candee, Jane 

Jennette Hotchkiss, Dec. 28, 1856; sponsors, JaneE. Hotchkiss, 

Jane E. Hubbell, S. Clark. 
Laura Ann Lake. Dec. 28, 1858; sponsors, Laura E. Carley, Ellen 

S. Lake, Anna M. Clarke. 
Annie Fairchild Clarke, parents sponsors, Dec. 28, 1858. 
John Hamilton Carley, Emmett Albert Carley, Charhe Warner 

Carley, Dec. 28. 1858; sponsors, M. Hatch, James F. Carley, 

Laura E. Carley. 
David Delbert Perry. Sept. 10. i860; sponsors, Mrs. Maria Hudson, 

Elizabeth J. Perry, Mrs. Perry. 
Jennie Maria Parmely. March 22, 1863; sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. 

Parmely, Miss Jennie Treat. 
Sarah Mina Wheeler, sponsors, Laura Chatfield. Mrs. H. C. Hatch, 

Oct. i I, 1852. 
Noyes Ely Ailing, son of Edwin B. and Laura C. Ailing, Mar. 7, '63. 
George McClellan Davis, son of Wm. H. and Frances J. Davis. 

July 19. 1862. 
Sarah Josephine Adeline Pardee, sponsors, C. M. Hatch, Electa 

Davis, Delia E. Fairchild, Feb. 9. 1858. 
Mary Louisa Spencer. Sept. 15. 1851; Frederick William. Jan. 2, 

1853; Martha Edith, Sep. 9, 1854; Charles Henry, Sept. 19, 

1856; George Frances, Dec. 21.' i860; children of Henry and 

Mary Spencer. 
Edwin Leroy Oatman. July 4, 1853; William Josiah, Nov. 22. 1856; 

Horace Hurd, Oct. 23, i860; sponsors, G. Burton Oatman, E. 

Oatman. R. Hudson, Polly Oatman. 
Henry Perry Williams, sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, C. M. 

Hatch, May 20, 1863. 
Leander Andrew Bunnell. April 5. 1852; Charles Albert. Nov. 11, 

Lelia Henrietta, Aug. t6, 1855; Martha Eliza, Jan. 4, 1858. 

sponsors, James Bunnell, Mrs. Lucy Bunnell. 
Mary Maravina, Sept. 20. 1850; Idella Jane, Nov. 11, 1852; William 

Nehemiah, May 25. 1855; Charles Burton, July 16, 1859; Lin- 

netta Grace, March 6, 1861; Nancy Maria: Feb. 26, 1863; chil- 
dren of Nehemiah and Nancy Andrews. 
Edwin, son of John F. and Sarah Riggs, Feb. 27, 1861. 



I06 INFANT BAPTISMS. 

Eva, daughter of John F. and Sarah Riggs, Jan., 1863. 
Emma Maria, dau. of John D. and Hulda Whymbs, Feb. 11, 1862. 
Frederick Alfred, son of Lucius P. and Emily C. Sperry, Oct. 16, '63. 
Charles Bennett, son of Egbert L. and Harriet C. Warner, Jan. 14, 

1864. 
Charles Smith, Nov. 11, '57, Samuel Benjamin, Mar. 18, '60, Mary 

Augusta, July 8, '59, children of Benjamin U. and Esther A. 

Beecher. 
Mary Esther, dau. of Albert D. and Maria E. Smith, July 26, 1864. 
Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Henry S. and Bridget Hubbell, Nov. 19, 

1864. 
Nellie Russel, Nov. 23, '64, Smith Anthony, Jan. 6, 1865, children 

of Charles R. and Orinda T. Oatman. 
Isaac Beecher, son of Wm. H. and Frances J. Davis, May 22, '66. 
Charles Ward, George Ward, Mary Eliza Ward, Aug. 20, 1865, 

sponsors, Peter and Susan Lee Ward. 
Nettie Lewis, dau. Lewis and Nancy Tucker, Sept. 2, 1865. 
Willie Arthur, May 16, '62, Herbert Perry, Apr. 27, '64, children of 

William H. and Martha Riggs. 
Alma Elizabeth, dau. of Nelson B. and Elizabeth J. Williams, June 

6, 1865. 
Fred Clinton, son of Clinton and Olivia N. Hart, Sept. 11, 1862. 
Arthur Gains, son of Egbert L. and Harriet C. Warner, Dec. 12, '65. 
Howard Lee Babcock, Aug. 19, 1866. 

John Edson, son of Charles and Mary Ann Perry, Apr. 6, 1866. 
James William, son of Henry Jones, June 15, 1856. 
Frederick Otis, Sept. 2, 1855. Elmer David, Apr. '62, Edgar Cor- 
nelius, Oct. 8, '64, children of David W. and Mary L Riggs. 
Franklin Perry, Apr. 21, 1867. 

Annie Maria, dau. of Merrill and Sarah Maria Baldwin, Jan. 24, '60. 
William Fred and Mary Francis Rhodes, July 7, 1867. 
Arthur Ray Osborn, July 7, 1867. 

Addie Maria, dau. of Albert D. and Maria E. Smith, Sept. 25, 1866. 
Lizzie Maria, dau. of Edwin and Laura Ailing, Feb. 27, 1867. 
Wilson Henry. Dec. 3, 1858, Helen Marian, Aug. 27, '61, children 

of Wilson and Julia Clark. 
Clarissa Ellen Treat, Mar. 26, 1868. 

Dennis Edson. son of Leverett and Emily C. Lindley. Feb. 7. 1865. 
William Henry Miller. Sept. 6, 1868. 
Albert Henry, son of Albert B. and Louisa M. Towner, Feb. 22, 

i86y. 



INFANT BAPTISMS. I07 

Emma Jane Brighton, Mar. 23, 1855; sponsors Mr. and Mrs. C. M. 

Hatch, Delia Fairchild. 
Emmagene, dau. of WiUiam Coney, Sept. 22, '62. 
Charles Andrew Schofield, May i. 1859. 
Betsey Lewis, Feb. 1858. 

Otis David, son of David Hawley, Aug. 8, 1869. 
Mary Fairchild, Aug. 23, 'd^, Lillian Fairchild. Nov. 2, '69, children 

of Joseph W. and Sarah E. Moody. 
Herbert Hudson, son of Albert D. and Maria E. Smith, Nov. 17, '68. 
Edwin Osborne, Feb. 2, '6S, Sarah Frederica, Nov. 4, '69, children 

of Fred'k O. and Sarah E. Cable. 
Mary Lewis, dau. of Egbert L. and Harriet C. Warner, May 31, '69. 
Mary, dau. of Cosmo F. and Sarah A. Allen, Dec. 21, 1868. 
Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Ellen M. Thompson, Jan. 7, 1868. 
John Edward, son of Anthony B. and Ellen M. Hinman, Nov. 1871. 
Clara Barton, Tomlinson, Nov. 25, '65. 

Clarence Eugene, son of Edwin J. and Laura C. Ailing, Sept. 15. '72. 
Martha May, dau. of William H. and Martha Riggs, Jan. 25, 1872. 
Mary F^rances, dau. of Truman E. and Frances E. Hurd, Aug. 26, '66. 
Catherine Maria, June 19. '70; Sarah Electa, Sept. 27, 'tz; children 

of Orlando C. and Idella J. Osborn. 
Katie Elizabeth, dau. of Frank B. Andrews, Feb. 27, 1872. 
Fannie, dau. of William Coney, April 5, 1874. 
Arthur Russell, son of Frederick Russell Keeney, Apr. 5, 1874. 
Jennie May, dau. of Elijah B. and Sarah A. Treat, April 20, 1874. 
Lewis Henry, son of Frank L. and Mary E. Davis, Aug. 23, 1874. 
Anna Louise, dau. of Charles H. and Kate E. Butler, June 7, 1874. 
Frederick Augustus Candee, Jan. 27, 1859. 
Eli Alfred Carley, Aug, 28, 1859. 
David Hawley, John Hawley, March 9, i86o- 

Edward Andrew, son of William and Mary M. Congo. Oct. 6, 1870. 
Edward Russell and Carrie Julia, children of Heber and Jennie G. 

Chatfield, June 4, 1S70. 
Amy Louisa, dau. of Albert B. and Louisa M. Towner. Mar. 14, '71. 
Elmer, son of Smith and Mary J. Osborn, July 5, 1869. 
Henry Amor Taylor, Mar. 3, '61; Albert Taylor, Apr. 15, '64; Mary 

Jane Taylor, Feb. 15, '67; Charles Eberton Taylor, Mar. 14, '70. 
Emma Augusta. Apr. 5 '62; Ida May, Oct. 4, '63; daughters of Albert 

Seeley. 



I08 FROM THE RECORDS OF ST. PETER's CHURCH. 

MARRIAGES. 

Burr Ailing of Oxford and Sarah E. Hartson of Seymour. May 25, '51. 
George A. Allen and Ellen P. Austin, both of Prospect, May 15, '74. 
Henry D. Baldwin of Southbury and Grace D. Chatfield of Oxford, 

Sept. 29, 185 1, 
Arthur H. Bartholomew and Henrietta E. Cable, both of Oxford, 

Jan. 14, 1874. 
Benjamin U. Beach of Cheshire and Esther A. Smith of Oxford, 

June 8, 1856. 
Willis M. Benham and Mary H. Tuttle, both of Woodbury, Nov. 

10, 1855. 
David W. Bronson of Southbury and Mary A. Booth of Oxford, 

June 10, 1852. 
Eras E. Burr of Southbury and Ellen T. Abbott, Oct. 25, 1871. 
John A. Bussanik of Riverhead, L. I., and Jane A. Gunn of Oxford, 

May II, 185 1. 
Charles H. Butler and Kate E. Fowler of West Haven, Nov. i, '68. 
Frederick O, Cable and Electa Davis, both of Oxford, April 24, '53. 
Alexander Campbell and Jennie Polhamius, both of New York, July 

30, 1873. 
Frederick C. Candee and Julia A. Keeney of Southbury, Nov. 13, '78. 
James F. Carley and Mary A. Wooster of Quaker Farms. Sept. 9, 

i860. 
Beecher Chatfield of Oxford and Mary E. Seymour of Dubuque, 

la., Sept. 14, 1851. 
Divine Chatfield and Laura Perry, both of Oxford, Dec. 19, 1855. 
Heber C. Chatfield of Oxford and Jennie G. Wooster of Seymour, 

Jan. 26, 1868. 
Howard Chatfield of Bethany and Emma Carrington of Seymour, 

Aug. 80, 1857, 
Wilson F. Clark of New Haven and Julia Cable of Oxford, Feb. 26, 

1849- 
Franklin L. Davis and Mary E. Lane, both of Oxford, Dec. 11, '72. 
John Davis of Seymour and Augusta E. Fairchild of Oxford, May 

9. 1852. 
William H. Davis of and Catherine M. Fairchild, both of Oxford, 

Jan. 28, 1874, by Rev. John T. Pearce. 
William O. Davis and Hattie Benham, 1879, by Rev. J. H. Van 

Buren. 

Edmund L. Doolittle of Seymour and Mary Ann Sperry, Apr. 5, '68. 



MARRIAGES. lOQ 

William A. Downs and Augusta M. Smith, both of Oxford, Oct. i, '68. 

Herbert J. Fairbanks of Guilford, Vt., and Harriet E. Gale of Ox- 
ford, Oct. 22, 1874. 

Charles S. Fairclough and Janette A. Wheeler, June 5, 1887. 

Benjamin Graham and Sarah M. Graham, both of Oxford, Sept. 14, 
1856. 

John Gray of Newtown and Mary E. Robinson of Southbury, June 
13. 1876. 

Henry C. Hawkins of Derby and Henrietta M. Hotchkiss of Ox- 
ford, Dec. 31, 1851. 

John Hawley and Laura Davis, both of Oxford, June 8, 1861. 

John M. D. Hendrick of New Haven and Harriet A. Sanford of Ox- 
ford, March 5, 1857. 

Anthony B. Hinman and Ellen N. Benham, both of Oxford, Nov. 
6. 1859. 

Charles B. Hinman of Southbury and Hannah Smith of Oxford, Oct. 
12, 1857. 

Clark I. Hitchcock and Mary R. Pullon, both of Seymour, Sept. 
I, 1867. 

Laurin Hotchkiss of Westville to Amanda Leek of Oxford, Feb. 
12, 1849. 

John M. Hubbard of Orange and Laura B. Davis, Oct. 4, 1874. 

Truman E. Hurd and Frances E. Wheeler, both of Southbury, 
Oct. 17, 1865. 

Erastus J. Hurlbut of Washington and Emeline G. Ailing of Ox- 
ford, March 30, 1853. 

Nathan S. Johnson of Derby and Betsey M. Cable of Oxford, Aug. 

31. 1851. 
Wheeler Judson of New Fairfield and Elsy Tuttle of Oxford, May 

I, 1851. 
Peter Keeney of Norfolk and Catherine Murphy of Collinsville, Dec. 

25, 1872. 
John Knapp of Derby and Nancy A. Worthington of O.xford, June 

9. 1856. 
John N. Leonard of New Haven and Martha F. Pardee, Aug, 4, '69 
William Lewis and Ellen Burton, both of Oxford, Feb. 24, 1874. 
Miles Loveland and Mrs. Maria Jones, both of Oxford, Nov. 5. 1848. 
William Lum and Mary E. Gunn, both of Oxford. June 16th, 1847. 
Rev. John H. McCrackson of Hartford and Cora G. Bailey. June 

6, r88v 



I lO FROM THE RECORDS OF ST. PETER S CHURCH. 

Julius W. Monson of Wallingford and Lucy A. Carley of Oxford, 
June I, 1865. 

Joseph W. Moody Upper Jay. N. Y., and Sarah E. Fairchild of 
Oxford. Nov. 28. 1866. 

Frederick E. Morris of Seymour and EveHna I. Roberts of South- 
ford, Sept. 12, 1883. 

William J. Oatman and Sarah E. Edwards, both of Southbury, 
April 2. 1880. 

Joel Osborn and Catherine S. VVashband, both of Oxford, June 
II, 1846. 

Elmer H. Pardee and Louise E. Candee, both of Oxford, Nov. 20, '79. 

Edwin S. Parmelee of Southbury and Mary Ann Treat of Oxford, 
Sept. 14, 1859. 

James Pemberton of Waterbury and Mary Jane Riggs of Oxford, 
Sept. 3, 1850. 

Cornelius C. Perkins of Bridgeport and Jannetta A. Candee of Ox- 
ford, Nov. 21, 1867. ' 

Charles Perry and Mary Ann Ailing, both of Oxford, Aug. 10. 185 1. 

Horace B. Perry and Sarah J. Beecher, both of Oxford, July 15, '68. 

Everett S. Piatt and Edna Hine, Sept 14. 1886. 

John J. Reynolds of Seymour and Sarah J. Richardson of Middle- 
bury, June 28, 1866. 

Herbert B. Richards of Southbury and Lillian H. Towner, Dec. 
28, 1874. 

Charles Riggs of New Haven and Augusta Smith of Oxford, June 
22, 1848. 

David C. Riggs and Esther A. Twitchell, both of Oxford, Nov. 11, '55 

James P. Riggs and Henrietta Perry, both of Oxford, Dec. 2, 1869 

Charles W. Robinson of Southbury and Idella M. Treat, April 24, '72 

George P. Sanford and M. Augusta Judd, both of Oxford, Jan. 1 5, '68 

Albert L Smith and Maria E. Hudson, both of Oxford, Sept. 27, '63 

Jervis Somers of Southbury and Antoinette Hawley, Apr. 19, 1877 

George Sperry and Mary A. Cable, both of Oxford, Nov. 19, 1845 

Lucius P. Sperry of Davenport, la., and Emily Chatfield of Ox- 
ford, Jan. 29, 1856. 

Robert Stevens and Ella L. Wheeler, both of Southbury, Feb. 18, '85. 

Charles W. Storrs of Seymour and Mary L. Davis of Oxford, Mar. 
30, 1863. 

William W. Thomas of Huntington and Julia Chatfield of Oxford, 
Aug. 18. 1867. 



MARRIAGES. Ill 

Elijah B. Treat and Sarah A. Curtis, both of Oxford, Apr. 23, 1873. 
Lewis B. Tucker and Nancy I. Sutton, both of Oxford, Sept. 20, '63. 
Horace H. Twitchel of Naugatuck and Polly O. Kane of Oxford, 

Nov. 14, 1847. 
Geo. H. Upson of Waterbury and Grace S. Barnes, Nov. 4, 1880. 
Orvin D. Warner of Derby and Helen S. Hawley, Dec. 25. 1872. 
Theron R. Warner of Ansonia and Eliza A. Bassett of Southbury, 

July 14, 1851. 
Henry S. Wheeler of Southbury and Hannah A. Candee. Dec. 5, 'tj. 
Joel M. Wheeler and Mary A. Smith, both of Oxford, Jan. 20, 1869. 
Robert Wheeler and Sarah Ward, both of Oxford, Sept. 27, 1876, 

by Rev. E. K. Lessell. 
Nelson B. Williams and Elizabeth I. Perry, both of Oxford. March 

17, 1861. 
David N. Woodruff of Woodbury and Nancy S. Benham of Nauga- 

tuck, Sept. 15, 1855. 
Charles H. Woodward and Nellie R. Oatman, Oct. 6, 1886. 
Edwin J. Wooster and Anna G. Loughlin, both of Oxford, Aug. 4, 

1885. 
Horace B. Wooster of Middlebury and Nancy E. Riggs of Oxford, 

Nov. 12, 1848. 

BAPTISMS. 

Laura C. Ailing, July 19, 1857. 
Erwin B. Ailing, Aug. 18, 1855. 

Mary L. Anketell, 1839. 

Mary A. Anketell, Feb. 9, 1862. 
Thomas J. Anketell, May 14, 1864. 
Elizabeth P. Barnes, Aug. 12, 1859. 
John S. Barnes, Apr. — 1861. 
Sarah Beecher, Jan. 14, 1846. 
Ellen M. Benham, Aug. 13, 1837. 
Elizabeth A. Benham, Oct. 14, 1848. 
Hattie A. Benham. May 30, 1854. 
George Brighton, Oct. 5, 1852. 
Kate E. Butler, Aug. 4, 1848. 
Betsey Cable. June 8, 1803. 
Glover W. Cable, April 2, 1S44. 
Henrietta E. Cable, May 17, 185 1. 



112 FROM THE RECORDS OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH. 

Louisa A. Candee, April 12, 1825. 
David H. Candee, Sept. 22, 1846. 
Jennetta A. Candee, May 30, 1848. 
Louisa E. Candee, April 11, 1850. 
Mary H. Candee, Sept. 29, 185 1. 
Frederick C. Candee, Aug. 15, 1854. 
Hannah A. Candee, June 9, 1856. 
Eli A. Carley, April 12, 1809. 
Ellen S. Carley, June 3, 1838. 
Laura E. Carley, Sept. 28, 18 13. 
Lucy A. Carley, Sept. 19, 1832. 
James F. Carley, May 5, 1837. 
Addison B. Clarke, Jan. 31. 1842. 
Alice E. Clarke, July 30, 1843. 
John R. Davis, Dec. 20, 1814. 
Sarah J. Davis, Oct. 29, 1819. 
Laura Davis, Sept. 13, 1840. 
Wm. Hart Davis, March 10, 1829. 
Frances J. Davis, June 18, 1837. 
Albert A. Dutton, Feb. 5, 1829. 
Julia A. Downs, Oct. 29, 1847. 
Hanford Fairchild, Mch. 7, 1799. 
Delia Elvira Fairchild, Oct. 7, 1800. 
Sarah M. Fairchild, Sept. 6. 1829. 
George A. Fairchild, Nov. 13, 1838. 
John H. Fairchild, April 22, 1837. 
Sarah E. Fairchild, Aug. 2, 1848. 
Charles B. Graham, Jan. 21, 1857. 
Chauncey M. Hatch, Nov. 16, 1786. 

Huldah C. Hatch, 1793- 

Henry Abijah Hawkins, May 27, 1864. 
David J. Hawley, May 27, 1799. 
Mary Hawley, Sept. 14, 1803. 
Henry Hawley, May 5, 1848. 
Emma Hawley, Mch. 19. 1850. 
Samuel E. Hubbell, June, 29, 1830. 
Maria Elizabeth Hudson, Nov, 21, 1840. 
Mary Elvira Hudson, May 14, 1849. 
John P. Hubbell, Nov. 8, 1834. 
Chas. T. Hubbell, Aug. 24, 1836. 
Henry S. Hubbell, Dec. 24, 1839. 



BAPTISMS. 113 



Frederick William Hubbell, Mch. 24, 1843. 
Wales Austin Hubbell, Sept. 24, 1844. 
Lewis Bennett Hubbell, Mch. 17, 1847. 
George Sperry Hubbell, Feb. i, 1849. 
Celestia A. Hubbell, Aug. 24, 1840. 
Agnes Mary Keeney, May 24, 1862. 
Frederick Augustus Lane, Jan. 15, 1863. 
Julia S. Leavenworth, Sept. 4, 1845. 
Sarah E. Leavenworth, Oct. 30, 1847. 
Frank A. Leek, Aug. 14, 1844. 
Elizabeth A. Leek, July 4, 1853. 
Emma Lounsbury, June 25, 1845. 
Tully Lounsbury. Mch. 8, 1847. 
David R. Lum, Julv 3, 1815. 
Mary B. Lum, Mch. 26, 1816. 
Albert W. Lum, May 2, 1838. 
Franklin M. Lum, May 13, 1840. 
Charles H. Lum, Oct. 2, 1843. 
Mary J. Lum, Feb. 14, 1846. 
Henrietta M. Lum, Sept. 8, 1858. 
Nellie R. Oatman, Nov, 23, 1864. 
Smith A. Oatman, Jan. 6, 1865. 
Thomas C. Osborne, Oct. 6, 1808. 
Nancy R. Osborne, Sept. 18, 1810. 
T. Smith Osborne, Feb. 2, 1839. 
Mary R. Osborne, May 22, 1842. 
F. Ray Osborne, March i, 1845. 
Orlando C. Osborne, March 23, 1847. 
Betsey M. Osborne, Apr. 4, 1857. 
Lois Perry, October — 1790. 
Elizabeth J. Perry, Mch. 12, 1825. 
Ellen O. Perry, bap. May 10, 1854. 
Charles B. Perry, Dec. 9, 1855. 
Sarah Ann Smith, Nov. 16, 1833. 
Daniel Albert Smith, May 25, 1837. 
Laura C. Smith, June 20, 1842. 
Lucy Esther Smith, Apr. 20. 1846. 
Henry Ephraim Smith, Mch. 4, 1850. 
Mary Somers, Sept. 13, 1824. 
Jervis Somers, July 10, 1833. 
Nancy J. Sutton, May 29, 1840. 



114 OXFORD RECORDS. 

Henry Sutton, May 31, 1843. 

Frederick K. Sutton, Apr. 27, 1851. 

Frank A. Sutton, April i, 1854. 

Ella M. Towner, Jan. 7, 1855. 

Lillian Hannah Towner, July i, 1858. 

Atwater Treat, Sept. 4, 1810. 

Elizabeth Ann Treat, Aug. 5, 1812, 

Eunice Frances Treat, Sept. 5, 1836. 

Elizabeth Jane Treat, May 27, 1838. 

Mary Ann Treat, June i, 1840. 

A. Br3^ant Treat, June 30, 1842. 

Elijah B. Treat, Nov. 30, 1842. 

Idella M. Treat, May 11, 1853, 

Charles Ward, Apr. ir, 1851. 

George Ward, Sept. 16, 1853. 

Matthew Ward, Oct. 12, 1839. 

Mary E. Ward, Oct. 28, 1856. 

James L. Wheeler, Mch. i, 1837. 

Frances Eliza Wheeler, Oct. 17, 1840. 

Martha Elizabeth Wheeler, Aug. 12, 1842. 

Mary S. Wheeler, Apr. 26, 1846. 

Henry S. Wheeler, Aug. 5, 1848. 

Alfred Newton Wheeler, Jan. 2. 1855. 

Elsie M. Williams, Feb. 16, 1841. 

Alice J. Williams, Nov. 19, 1846. 

Edward Andrew, son of William and Mary M. Coney, Oct. 16, 1870. 

Edward Russell, Carrie Julia, children of Heber and Jennie G. 

Chatfield, June 4, 187 1. 
Amy Louisa, dau. of Albert B. and Louisa M. Towner, Mar, 14, '71. 
Elmer, son of Smith and Mary J. Osborn, July 5, 1869. 
Henry Amor Taylor, March 3, 1861. 
Albert Tavlor, April 15, 1864. 
Mary Jane Taylor, Feb. 15, 1867. 
Charles Eberton Taylor, March 14, 1870. 
Emma Augusta, April 5, 1862, Ida May, Oct. 4, 1863, daughters of 

Albert Seeley. 
John Edward, son of Anthony B. and Ellen M. Hinman, Nov. 1871. 
Clara Barton Tomlinson, Nov. 25, 1865. 

Clarence Eugene, son of Edwin J. and Laura C. Ailing, Sept. 15, '72. 
Martha May, dau. of William H. and Martha Riggs, June 25, 1872. 
Mary Frances, dau. of Truman E. and Frances E. Hurd, Aug. 26, '66. 



BAPTISMS. 1 1 5 

Catherine Maria, June 19, '70, Sarah Electa, Sept. 27, '72, children 

of Orlando C. and Idella J. Osborn. 
Katie Elizabeth, dau. of Frank B. Andrews, Feb. 27, 1872. 
Fannie, dau. of William Coney, April 5, 1874. 
Arthur Russell, son of Frederick Russell Keeney, April 5, 1874. 
Jennie May, dau. of Elijah B. and Sarah A. Treat, April 20. 1874. 
Lewis Henry, son of Frank L. and Mary E. Davis, Aug. 23, 1874. 
Anna Louis, dau. of of Charles H. and Kate E. Butler, June 7, '74 
Annie Elvira, dau. of Noah J, aud Laura E. Welton, Mar. i/, 1870 
Arthur Evelyn, son of Edwin J. and Laura C. Ailing:, Mar. 28, 1875 
Bessie Minerva, dau. Glover W. and Elizabeth H. Cable, July 15, '75 
Emma Flora, dau. of Albert B. and Louisa M. Towner, Jan. 8, '73 
Katie Eliza, Dec. 18, 1868, Henry Baldwin Harrison, July 22, 1869, 

children of Truman E. and Frances E. Hurd. 
Florence Louisa, dau. of Elijah B. and Sarah A. Treat, Nov. 6, '"]"]. 
Bertha Maria, dau. of Henry A. and Ellen B. Lane, July 10, 1872. 
John Birdsey, son of Geo, P. and M. Augjusta Sanford, Mar. 13, '76. 
Franklin Burton, son of Edwin J. and Laura C. Ailing, June 14, '78. 
William Everett, son of Edward W. Chatfield, Feb. 15, 1876. 
Lillian Brockett, July 10, 1867, Carrie Zerniah, July 4, 1870, children 

of Gilbert Robinson. 
Frederick Alfred, Apr. 3, ''j'], Henry Roswell, Jan. 17, '79, children 

of Glover W. and Elizabeth H. Cable. 
Frances Mallett, dau. of W. O. and Hattie Davis, Nov. 28, 1880. 
Frederick Townsend, sonofFred'kR. and Agnes Keeney, Nov. 28, '80. 
Frederick Arthur, son of Fred C. and Julia H. Candee, Nov. 28, '80. 
Sarah Jennette, dau. of John and Laura Hawley, Nov. 28, 1880. 
Libbie Coe Pope, John Horace Pope, William Benjamin Pope, Al- 
bert Kimberly Pope, June 26, 188 1. 
Minnie Alice Milburn. June 26, 1881. 

Harr}' Elmer, son of F. C. and Julia Candee, April 16, 1882. 
Harry Robert, son of Robt. and Sarah Wheeler, April 16, 1882. 
Charles Heber, Ruth Wooster, children Heber Chatfield, Apr. 16, '82. 
Mary Henrietta, dau. of E. B. and Sarah Treat, April 16, 1882. 

child of Albert and Elizabeth Smith, June 1883. 

Atwater Curtiss, son of Elijah and Sarah Treat, Feb. 15, 1883. 
Ralph Elisha, son of Harry and Hannah Wheeler, Oct. 28, 1883. 
Mary Louise, dau of Elmer H. and Louise E. Pardee, Aug. 16, '84. 
Emma Jane, dau. of Silas S. and C. M. Booth, Sept. 12, 1875. 
Julia Gertrude, Sept. 17, 1880, Nelson Miles, Dec. 11, '82, Emma 

Jeannette, Jan. 17, '85, children of Glover W. and Elizabeth 

H. Cable. 



I l6 OXFORD RECORDS. 

Henry Smith, Sept. 23, '74, William Thomas. Dec. 2, '85, at South- 
ford; sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Wm. T. Smith, Elley 
Smith and C. Fairclough. 

Emma Rothchild, dau. of Harrj^ and Hannah Wheeler, at South- 
ford, May 27, 1886. 

Frances Polly Oatman, at Southford, Aug. 7, '83, sponsors, Mr. and 
Mrs. Oatman. Prudence Edwards. 

Emma Prudence Adams, at Sonthford, Sept. 15, 1865, sponsors, 
Henry Wheeler, Mrs. H. Wheeler. 

Lydia Charlotte Milburn, at Southford, Aug. 23, 1873, Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry Wheeler. 

Jennetta Augusta Wheeler, Julia Glover Wheeler, at Southford, 
May 16, 1886, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wheeler, 

Mary Clark. Jan. 6, '81, Josephine Harriet, Oct. 28, '83. children of 
Jennie and Edward Chatfield. 

Henry Stewart Davis, Sept. 7, 1883. 

Mary Ellen Ward, Sept. 7, 1884. 

William Edward Vogelsang, Dec. 29, 1885. 

Frederick Lane Davis, Dec. 5, '84, Mary Northrop (Lum) Oct. 22, 
'57, sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Davis. Lewis H. Davis. 

Frederick Augustus Candee, Jan. 27, 1859. 

Eli Alfred Carley, Aug. 28, 1859. 

David Hawley, John Hawley, March 9, i860. 

Ellen Maria Pardee, Nov. 23, 1843. 

Mary Jane Pardee, Aug. 25, 1848. 

Martha Frances Pardee, Aug. 7, 1850. 

Katharine Amelia Wheeler, Jan. 20, 1848. 

Lucy Maria Bunnell, March 29, 1830. 

Mary Jane Bunnell, Apr. 28, 1850. 

Nancy, wife of Nehemiah Andrews, Aug. 18, 1819. 

Jessie Mabel Lum, July 11, 1880, sponsors, mother and grandmother. 

Lois Elizabeth Andrew, Nov. 21, '52, Frederick William, Sept. 12, 
'85, sponsors, Mrs. Geo. Andrew, Daisy Andrew. 

Emeline Hine, at Southford, Oct. 12, 1838, sponsors, Mrs. Henry 
Wheeler, Rev. Mr. Potwine. 

Henrietta Wheeler, at Southford, Mch. 11, 1887. born 1821, spon- 
sors, Mrs. Henry Wheeler, Rev. Mr. Potwine. 

Wm. Howard Milburn, at Southford, March 11, 1887, born 1871, 
sponsors, Mrs. Henry Wheeler, Rev. Mr. Potwine. 



BAPTISMS. TI7 

Le Grand Warner Lake, Jan. 10, 1833. 

Marion Frances Lum, Dec. 15, 1842. 

Mary Elizabeth Johnson, May 31, 1849. 

Horatio Hawkins Carley, Aug. 20, 1864, witnesses, Laura E. and 

Susan Hepsie Ward, Dec. 12, 1847. [Eli A. Carley. J 

Josephine Smith, June 14, 1854. 

Mary Ann Perry, May 5, 1826. 

Mary Ann Carley, Aug. 19, 1866. 

Frances Minerva, dau. of David W. and Mary L. Riggs, Nov. 17, '53. 

Emily Cornelia Lindley, April 21, 1867. 

Joseph Whitman Moody, April 12, 1868. 

JuHa Almira Downs, May 28, 1854. 

Sarah Eliza Pardee, Apr. 23, 1868. 

Eleanor Celestia Robinson, March 22, 185 1. 

William Hubert Riggs, May 31, 1868. 

George Andrews, May 31, 1868. 

Hiram Osborn Peck, May 31, 1868. 

Nelson Boardman, March 14, 1809. 

Albert Bronson Towner, March 28, 1869. 

William Coney, Feb. 26, 183 1. 

John Durey Lockwood, Feb. 17, 1844. 

James Philo Riggs, Sept. 23, 1835. 

Sarah Elizabeth, widow of John H. Fairchild, Jan. 26, 1844. 

Charles Henry Butler, July 21, 1844. 

Ellen Mary Thompson, April 15, 1850. 

Harmond Albert Beers, husband of Nancy E. Beers, Nov. 24, 1837. 

Jennette Riggs, wife of Samuel Riggs, June 16, 1819. 

Sarah Amanda Treat, Sept. 10, 1873. 

Martha Frances Hawley, Oct. 19, 1873. 

Eunice Julia Robinson, Oct. 26, 1873. 

Laura E., wife of Noah J. Welton, March 27, 1875. 

Frank Arthur Barrows, Nov. 9, 1885. 

DEATHS. 

Thomas Spence, d. Oct. 13, 1845. 

Joel Buckingham, d. Oct. 15, 1845. 

Mrs. Susan Peck, d. Nov. i, 1845, aged 61 years. 

Andrew Welton, d. May 2, 1846, aged 72 years. 

Elijah Johnson, d. May 23, 1847. aged 73 years. 

William Perry, d. Jan. 5, 1848, aged 40 years. 

Mrs. Clara Clarke, d. Jan. 18, 1848, aged 71 years. 



Il8 OXFORD RECORDS. 

Mrs. Phebe Wheeler, d. April 17, 1848. aged 75 years. 

Mrs. Lois E. Lnm, d. May 6, 1848. aged 42 years. 

Charles Abner, son of Horace Cable, d. Sept, 14, aged 13 months. 

Rana Northrop, d. Sept. 21, 1848, aged 69 years. 

Caroline, dau. of Joseph Conner, d. Sept. 21, 1848, aged 3 years. 

Ellen, dau. of Smith Gunn, d. Sept. 21, 1848, aged 3 years. 

Catherine Ann, dau. Horace Cable, d. Oct. 29, 1848, aged 2 y. 6 m. 

Horace Bunnell, d. Nov. 18, 1848, aged 53 years. 

Mahala Bryan (col.) d. Nov. 26, 1848, aged 20 years. 

Col. John Davis, d. Nov. 28, 1848, aged 93 years. 

John K. Bassett, d. July 29, 1849. 

Leverett Riggs, d. Sept. 8, 1849, aged 62 years. 

Smith Gunn, d. Feb. 25, 1850. aged 43 years. 

Zevia, dau. of Daniel Chatfield, d, Sept. 16, 1850, aged 60 years. 

Bennett Perry, d. March 11, 185 1, aged 57 years. 

William Church, d. March 11, 185 1, aged 80 years. 

Mary Elizabeth, dau. of George and Henrietta Candee, d. May 13, 

185 1, aged 12 years. _ 
Sarah Bunnell, wife of Reuben Bunnell, d. Sept. 6, 185 1, aged 84 y. 
Bowers Johnson, d. Nov. 23, 185 1, aged 83 years. 

Mary Elizabeth, dau. of James and Elizabeth Moody, d. Jan 30, 

1852, aged 14 years. 

Mrs. Sarah Twitchell, wife of AbijahTwitchell, d. Feb. 13, 1852,8676. 

Betty Hall, d. Feb. 29, 1852, aged 58 years. 

Henry, son of Charles and Sarah Nichols, d. May 13, 1852, aged 4 y. 

Mehitable Davis, d. Dec. 30, 1852, aged 89 years. 

Reuben Bunnell, d. F.eb. 2, 1853. aged 87 years. 

Samuel Wheeler, d. Feb. 3. 1853, aged 73 years. 

Sarah, widow of Edward Riggs, d, March 23, 1853. aged 88 years. 

Alonzo Leek, d. Jan. 10, 1854. aged 34 years. 

Bernard, son of Cyrus Humphrey, d. Jan. 11, 1854, aged 34 years. 

Thomas Baron, d. Jan. 27, 1854, aged 51 years. 

Maria Loveland, wife of Miles Loveland, d Jan. 29, 1854, aged 56 yrs. 

Martha Jane, dau. Moody and Ellen J. Brown, d. July 30, 1854.8616. 

Laura, widow of John Davis, Jr., d. Nov. 14. 1854. 

Mrs, Mamie, wife of Devine Chatfield, d. Jan. 28, 1855. aged 67. 

Mrs. Patty Bostwick, d. March 31, 1855, aged 86 years. 

Frances E., dau. Frederick and Sarah Cables, d. May 16. 1855,861 im. 

Sarah Clarissa Booth, d. June 14. 1855, aged 20 yrs., 8 mo. 

Clara, wife of John Fairchild, d. April 22, 1856, aged 56 yrs. 

Horace Scott, son Roswell and Hannah Cable, d. June 1 1. 1855,8623. 



DEATHS. 119 

Rachel Hall, (colored) d. July 8, 1856, aged 56 yrs. 

Leverett Scovill, d. Sept. 7, 1856. 

Charles, son of Bennett and Delia Scovill, d. Nov. 2, 1856. 

Sarah Griswold, d. Dec. 18, 1856, aged 91 yrs. 

Orlando Cable, d. Dec. 21, i8^6, aged 60 yrs. 

Louisa, dau. of David and Eunice Hnrd, d. Nov. 30, 1856, aged 28. 

Elizabeth S., dau. of Edmund E. and Maria T. Lewis, d. Jan. 27, 

1857, aged 36 yrs. 

George, son of Robert and Julia Wheeler, d. 1857, aged 34 yrs. 

Enoch Perkins, d. May 14, 1857, aged 84 yrs. 

Mrs. Deborah Wheeler, d. May 20, 1857, aged 88 yrs. 

Mrs. Maria Morris (colored) dau. of Timothy and Olive Drake, d. 

July 12, 1857, aged 36 yrs. 
Mrs. Sarah Burr, d. Nov. 17, 1857, aged 87 yrs. 
Mrs. Ellen J., wife of Moody M. Brown, d. Nov. 20, 1857, ae 50 y. 
Elvia Maria, dau. of Levi A. and Julia E. Morris, d. March 18, 1858, 

aged 2 yrs. 
Ralph E., son of Elisha and Eliza A. Wheeler, d. June 8, 1858, aged 

15 years. 
Dwight, son of Nehemiah and Phinet Andrews, d. Aug. 22, 1858, 

aged 21 yrs. 
Frederick Lewis, son of Atwater and Elizabeth Treat, d. Aug. 22, 

1858, aged 2 yrs., 7 mo. 

Adaline A., wife of Washington Benham, d. Oct. 7, 1858, aged 39 

yrs., 6 mos. 
Frederick A. Candee, d. Feb. 28, 1859, aged 41 yrs. 
George A., son of Frederick A. and Louisa A. Candee, d. April 2, 

1859, aged ii>2 mos. 

Maria, wife of Nelson B. Williams, d. July 9, 1859, aged 48 yrs. 
Eunice F. dau. of Atwater and Elizabeth A. Treat, d. April 21, 1859, 

aged 22 yrs., 6 mos. 
Johnson Camp, d. July 28, 1859, aged 65 yrs. 
Devine Cbatfield. d. March 24, i860, aged 73 yrs. 
Benjamin Graham, d. April 13, i860, aged 37 yrs. 
John L. Fairchild, d. April 29, i860, aged 59 yrs. 
David J. Hawley, d. May 23, i860, aged 62 yrs. 

Hinman, d. Aug. 18, i860, aged 5 days. 

Betsey Cable, d. Aug. 26, i860, aged 57 yrs. 
David D, Perry, d. Sept. 12, i860, aged 2 1-4 yrs. 
G. Henry Candee, d. Sept. 28, i860, aged 15 yrs. 



I20 FROM THE RECORDS OF ST. PETERS CHURCH. 

Philo Treat, d. Oct. 26, i860, aged 40 yrs. 

John A. Graham, d. Oct. 30, i860. 

Lucy Candee, d. Feb. 7, 1861, aged 79 yrs. 

Eunice Button, d. Feb. 10, 1861, aged 68 yrs. 

OHve Drake, d. Feb. 20, 1861, aged 66 yrs. 

Alice J. WilHams, d. Feb. 23, 1861, aged 14 yrs. 

Polly Graham, d. Jan. 22, 1862, aged 66 yrs. 

Betsie Hawkins, d. Feb. 19, 1862, aged 66 yrs. 

Mrs. Cahoe, d. March 30, 1862, aged 62 yrs. 

Mrs. Nabby Sherman, d. Oct. 2, 1862, aged 68 yrs. 

Mrs, Sarah Osborn, d. Jan. 4, 1863, aged 78 yrs. 

John Lanse, d. Jan. 17, 1863, aged 28 yrs. 

Francis W. Green, d. Jan. 21, 1863, aged 2 yrs. 

Roswell Cable, bu. Aug. 10, 1863, aged 67 yrs., husband of 

Hannah Cable. 
Jane E., wife of Leonard Hotchkiss, d. Sept. 29, 1863, aged 31 yrs. 
Deme Lum, d. Nov. 3, 1863, aged 83 yrs., 11 mos. 
Henry, son of Henry and Bridgett Hubbell, d. Nov. 14, 1863, 

aged 2 yrs., 3 mos. 
Abel W. Bronson, bu. March 8, '64, aged 66 yrs., husband of Eliza. 
Ida J., dau. of James and Lucy Bunnell, d. March 17, 1864, aged 

4 yrs., 4 mos. 
Rosey, wife of Enos Chatfield. d. May 21, 1864, aged 62 yrs. 
Martha E., dau. of James and Lucy Bunnell, d. June 10, 1864, 

aged 6 yrs., 4 mos. 
Emma M., dau. of John D. Huldah Whymbs, bu. Sept. 28. 1864, 

aged 2 yrs., 7 mos. 
Polly Beardsley, widow, bu. Oct. 25, 1864, aged 85 yrs. 
Ransom Hine, bu. Nov. 1 1, '64, aged 50 yrs., son of Mrs. C. Botsford. 
Mrs. Rebecca Gunn, d. Nov. 24. 1864, aged 47 yrs. 
Charles Woodin, d. Mar. 21, 1865, aged 53 yrs. 
Willie, son of Theodore and Martha Wheeler, bu. Apr. 12, 1865, 

aged 5 weeks. 
Laura M., dau. of Charles and Mary Ann Perry, d. Apr. 21, 1865, 

aged 2 weeks, 5 days. 
Hattie, dau. of Harry and Mary A. Sutton, d. June 25, 1865, aged 

4 yrs., 10 mos. 
Mrs. Nancy Lum, bu. Aug. 14, 1865, aged 48 yrs. 
Charles B., son of Egbert L. and Harriet C. Warner, bu. Sept. i, 

1865, aged I yr., 8 mos. 

5-18- '07. 



DEATHS. 121 

Leonard Hotchkiss, widower, d. Sept. 3, 1865, aged 38 yrs. 

Martha L., wife of J. J. Jones, d. Nov. 24, i86s, aged 29 yrs. 

Samuel Candee, husband of Lucy, d. Dec. 17, 1865, aged 76 yrs. 

Chauncey M. Hatch, d. Dec. 20, '65, aged 79 yrs. , hus. of Huldah C. 

George Sperry, bu. Dec. 26, 1865, aged 54 yrs., hus. of Mary Ann. 

Betsy Chatfield, bu. March 6, 1866, aged 48 yrs. 

EHzabeth, wife of Washington Benham, d. Apr. 4, '66, aged 36 yrs. 

CaroHne E., wife of Bryant Treat, d. Apr. 7, '65, aged 24 yrs. , 7 mos. 

Sally P. Smith, d. Apr. 12, 1866, aged 73 yrs. 

Mary, wife of Cosmos F. Ailing, d. May 11, 1866, aged 24 yrs. 

Wales A., son of Everett and Jane Hubbell, d. May 16, 1866, aged 

21 yrs., 7 mos. 
James F. Carley, d. June 6, 1866, aged 28 yrs., 11 mos., husband of 

Mary Ann Carley. 
Ellen O., dan. of Charles and Mary Ann Perry, d. July 14, 1866, 

aged 12 years. 
Letson Buckingham, d. July 23, 1866, aged 66 yrs. 
Mrs. Nabby Osborn, d. July 31, 1866. 

Charles Hubbell, d. Sept. 3, '^, aged 30 yrs., hus. of Mary Hubbell. 
Albert Morris, bu. Oct. 10, 1866, aged 12 years, son of Levi 

and Juliett Morris. 
Hannah, wife of Joel Riggs, d. Jan. 18, 1867, aged 65 yrs. 
Eli A. Carley, d. Jan. 26, '67, aged 58 yrs., hus. of Laura E. Carley. 
Betsey, wife of Agar Curtiss, d. Feb. 12, 1867, aged 79 yrs. 
George English, d. Feb. 21, 1867, aged 31 yrs. 
Philena Bunnell, bu. Mar. 21. 1867, aged 75 yrs. 
Melissa D., dau. of Albert Seeley, bu. April 20, 1867, aged 7 mos. 
Lucy M., wife of James Bunnell, d. May 9, 1867, aged 37 yrs. 
William H. Botsford, d. June 22, 1867, aged 64 yrs. 
Horace T. Cable, d. Sept. 5, '6-], aged 64 yrs., hus. ot Ann T. Cable. 
Reuben Tucker, bu. Sept. 18, ^6^, aged 85 ys., hus. of Kezia Tucker. 
Alice B., dau. of Gilbert and Louisa Robinson, bu. Oct. 11, 1867, 

aged 3 mos. 
Marvin R. Sanford, d. Oct. 28, 1867, aged 67 yrs. 
David T. Meiggs, d. Nov. 2, 1867, aged 18 days. 
Prudence Sperry, d. Nov. 22, 1867. aged 86 yrs. 
Ralph Lewis, d. Jan. 27, 1868, aged 73 yrs. 
John Smith, d. Mar. 24, 1868, aged ^^ yrs. 
Sarah Nichols, d. April 20, 1868, aged 71 yrs. 
Edd, son of Peter and Susan L. Ward, d. July 4, 1868, aged 30 yrs. 



122 FROM THE RECORDS OF ST. PETER's CHURCH. 

Hannah Buckingham, d. Sept. 5, 1868, aged 93 years. 
Josephus Hall, d. Sept. 26, 1868. aged 87 yrs. 
David R. Lum, d. Nov. 4, 1868, aged 53 yrs., hus. of Mary B. Lnm. 
William L. Pardee, d. Nov. 22, 1868, aged 47 years, husband of 

Sarah E. Pardee 
Loraine, wife of Victory Lounsbury, d. Nov. 25, 1868, aged 73 yrs. 
Lucy M. Candee, bu. Jan. 27, 1869, aged 73 yrs., widow of 

Samuel Candee. 
Betsey M., wife of Clark Botsford, d. Feb. 6, 1869, aged 72 yrs. 
Albert H., son of Albert B. and Louisa Towner, bu. Feb. 26, 1869, 

aged 7 mos. 
Enos Chatfield, d. June 5, 1869, aged 73 years, widower of 

Rosey Chatfield. 
Patty Seeley, d. Aug. 9, 1869, aged 92 yrs. 

Maretia C, dau. of Theodore Wheeler, d. Oct. 9, 1869, aged 5 wks. 
David H., son of Louisa A. Candee, d. Oct. 16, 1869, aged 23 yrs. 
Moody M. Brown, bu. Dec. 26, 1869. 
Nancy M., dau. of Nehemiah and Nancy Andrews, d. Dec. 26, 

1869, aged 6 yrs., 10 mos. 
George A. Fairchild, d, Dec. 31, 1869, aged 31 yrs. 
Charles, son of William Coney, d. Feb. 6, 1870, aged 10 yrs. 
Charley, son of Peter and Susan L. Ward, d. Feb. 6, '70. a. 19 yrs. 
John H. Fairchild, d. Feb. 22, 1870, aged 37 yrs. and 10 mos., 

husband of Sarah Elizabeth. 
Sarah J., wife of Glover W. Cable, d. April 29, 1870, aged 

20 yrs., 7 mos. 
Isaac B., son of W. Hart and Frances J. Davis, d. May 22, 1870, 

aged 6 yrs. 
Eliza Beers, d. May 30, 1870, aged 64 years. 
Maria, wife of Ely Allen, d: June r, 1870, aged 72 yrs. 
Martha, wife of Theodore Wheeler, d. 1869. 
Lizzie M., dau. of Edwin B. and Laura Allen, d. June 10, 1870, 

aged 3 yrs., 3 mos. 
Delia E., wife of Hanford Fairchild. d. June 14, 1870, aged 

69 yrs., 8 mos. 
Virtia E., wife of Stiles L. Smith, d. July 21, 1870, aged 29 

yrs., 9 mos. 
Albert A. son of Dr. T. A. B. J. Dutton, d. Aug. 22, '70, a. 42 yrs. 
Hiram Osborn, d. Sept. 13, 1870, aged 85 years. 
Mary J., wife of David Hawley, d. Jan. 16, 1871, aged 31 years, 



DEATHS. 123 

Lewis Davis, d. Feb. 11, 1871, aged 68 yrs., bus. of Lucinda Davies. 

John J. Jones, d. Feb. 21, 1871, aged 59 years. 

Harmond A. Beers, d. March 3, 1871, aged 33 yrs., husband 

of Nancy E. Beers. 
Keziah Tucker, d. March 29, 1871, aged 86 years, widow of 

Reuben Tucker. 
Andrew S. Graham, d. April 3, 187 1, aged 85 years. 
Elsie, wife of Wheeler Judson, d, April 28, 1871, aged 62 years. 
Henry Lane, d. May 21, 1871, aged 4 yrs., 5 mos. 
Joel Osborn, d. May 25, '71. a. 50 yrs., bus. of Catherine T. Osborn. 
Stiles Fairchild, d. June 4, 1871, aged 66 yrs., husband of 

Mary Ann Fairchild. 
John Beecher, d. July 14, 1871, aged 62 yrs., husband of Jane 

Beecher. 
Ransom Hudson, d. July 19, 1871, aged 62 years., husband of Maria 

Hudson. 
Franklin J., son of Noah J. and Laura E. Welton, d. Dec. 8, 1871, 

aged 4 yrs. 7 mos. 
Charles B., son of Noah J. and Laura E. Welton, d. Dec. 13, 1871, 

aged 3 yrs. 9 mos. 
Kate E., wife of F. Andrews, bu. March 5, 1872, aged 20 yrs. 
Charles A. Candee, bu. Mar. 10, 1872, aged 49 yrs., husband of 

Amanda Candee. 
Frances J., wife of William H. Davis, d. May 16. 1872, aged 35 yrs. 
Samuel Riggs, d. June 17. [872, aged 53 yrs., husband of Jeannette 

Riggs. 
Philo Bassett, d. July 11, 1872, aged 76 yrs. 
Hannah Tuttle, d. July 29, 1872, aged 60 yrs. 
Harry Low, d. Oct. 6, 1872, aged 100 yrs. 
John R. Davis, d. Oct. 18, 1872, aged 58 yrs., husband of Sarah J. 

Davis. 
Clark Botsford, d. May 5, 1873, aged 75 yrs. 
Jennie Wheeler, d. July 29, 1873, aged 14 mos. 
George N. Candee. d. June 18, 1874, aged 63 yrs. 
Samuel L. Downs, d. Aug. 28, 1874, aged 69 years. 
Sybil Skeeles, bu. Jan. 31, 1875, aged nearly 100 years. 
Lois Perry, d. March 15, 1875, aged 84 years 5>^ mos. 
Frances E., wife of Truman Hurd, d. April 12, 1875, aged 34 yrs. 5 m. 
Lucy A., wife of Frederick C. Candee, d. June 13, 1875, a 18 y. 1 1 m. 
Catherine S., widow of Joel Osborn, d. Feb. 2, 1875, aged 52 yrs. 



124 DEATHS. 

Huldy C, wife of Chauncey M. Hatch, d. Mch. 30. 1876, aged 83 y. 

Julia Fairchild, d. 1876, dau. of Chauncey M. Hatch. 

Harry Sutton, bu. Aug. 22, 1876, aged 67 yrs,, husband of Mary 

Sutton. 
Betsey M. Osborn, d. Oct. 21, 1876, aged 19 yrs. 6mos., dau. of 

Joel and Catherine Osborn. 
Elisha Wheeler, d. Jan. ist, 1877, aged 61 yrs, (husband of Eliza 

Wheeler.) 
Jane, wife of John Beecher, d. Jan. g, 1877, aged 66 yrs. 
Jane E., wife of Everette Hubbell, d. Jan. 13, 1877, aged 66 yrs. 
Ruth A., wife of Thomas Wooster, d. Jan. 30, 1877, aged 67 yrs. 
Idella M., wife of Charles W. Robinson, d. Aug. 9, 1876, aged 23 

yrs. 3 mos. 
Sarah M., widow of Smith Washband, d, June 4, 1877, aged 79 yrs. 

7 mos. 
Orlando J., son of Orlando C. and Idella J Osborn, d. June 21, 

1878, aged I yr. 4 mos. 
Hattie T., wife of Henry E. Castle, d. Sept. 10, 1878, aged 29 yrs. 

6 mos. 
Clifford W., son of Lewis W. and Ruthella Robinson, bu. Nov. 28, 

1878. aged 6 yrs. 5 mos. 
Sarah M., wife of Washington Benham, d. Feb. 22, 1879, aged 49 

yrs. 5 mos. 
David Oatman, bu. May 31, 1879, aged 82 yrs. 
Charles, son of Edward W. and Jennie Chatfield, bu. July 27, 1879, 

aged 20 days. 
William, son of Albion A. and Minnie Hall, bu. Aug. 27, 1879, a. 2 m. 
Laura E., wife of N. J. Welton, d. Sept. 15, 1879, aged 36 yrs. 
Mary E. Judd, d. May 26, 1880, aged 68 yrs., widow of A. L. Judd. 
Sarah J. Davis, d. July 9, 1880, widow of John R. Davis. 
Trueworthy Munger, d. Aug. 9, 1880. 
Susan L., wife of Peter Ward, d. Jan. 12, 188 1. 
Howard C. son of E. H. and Louise Pardee, d. July 30, 1881, a. 5d. 
William Bailey, d. Jan. 3. 1882. 
Jennie Hotchkiss, d. July 12, 1882. 
Mary A., widow of Harry Sutton, bu. July 21, 1886. 
Mary Tappan, d. Jan. 27, 1886, aged 94 yrs. 

Elsie, daughter of Nelson Williams, d. March 28, 1886, aged 45 yrs. 
Orinda Oatman, d. April 25, 1886, aged 61 yrs. 
William Butler, d. April i6. 1886. aged 68 yrs. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 123 

HILLSIDE CEMETERY, QUAKER FARMS. 

INSCRIPTIONS IN ADDITION TO THOSE PUBLISHED IN 1885. 

In memory of John Bassett. He died May 8th. 1804, ^t 83. 

Naomi, his iirst wife, died May 17, 1772, -'Et 50. 

Sarah, his second wife, died May 3d, 1804, ^Et 72. 
John Bassett. Died May 14, 1832, aged 74 yrs. 
Anna, wife of Truman Bunnell, died June 21, 1832, -E 66 yrs. 
Sterne Candee. 1828-1905. 
Roxy Candee. Died Nov. 17, 1858, aged 22 ys. & 8 mo. 

We loved her, yes, no tongue can tell 
How much we loved her & how well ; 
God loved her. too, & he thought best 
To take her home to be at rest. 

Horace Candee. Died April 12, i860, aged 73. 

Caroline, wife of Horace Candee. Died Sept. 26, 185 1, aged 55. 

Dearest mother thou hast left us 
Here thj' love we deeply feel, 
But 'tis God that has bereft us. 
He can all our sorrow heal. 

An infant son of Horace & Caroline Candee. 

Isaac Chatfield, died Sept. 25. 1837, aged 82. 

Sarah, wife of Isaac Chatfield, died Nov. 27, 1827, aged 66. 

Truman, son of Isaac & Sarah Chatfield, died Feb. 20, 1833. 

David K. Chatfield, died Sept. 15. 1853, aged 70. 

Mary, wife of David K. Chatfield, died Feb. 21, 1869, aged 67. 

In memory of John Chatfield, who died June 28, 1837, aged 85 years. 

Also his wife, Mary Chatfield, who died Jan. 21st. 1827, aged69years. 

Oh : we have watched their parting breath 

And closed their weary eyes. 
And sighed to see how sadly death 

Can sever human ties. 

In memory of Sheldon Chatfield, who departed this life July 12th, 

1808, in the 23d year of his age. 
In memory of Lyman, son of John & Mary Chatfield. who died 

Sept. 29. 1805, aged 11 years. 
Betsey, wife of Agur Cnrtiss. died Feb. 12. 1867, aged 79. 

Almighty God 'tis right, 'tis just. 
That mortal frame should turn to dust. 
But oh forgive the wilful tear 
That would retain her spirit here. 

Sarah R. Curtiss, died April 16, 1859. aged 43. 
John R. Curtis, died Nov. Nov. 4, 1852, aged 31. 

Meet me in heaven. 



126 INSCRIPTIONS. 

Betsey Maria, only child of William & Laura M. Griffin, died June 
25, i860, aged 16 yrs., 10 mo. & 15 d's. 

Sweet is the scene when Christians die. 
When holy souls letire to rest: 
How mildly beams the closins eye. 
How gently heaves the expirinsj breast. 

Alfred Harger, died Oct. 2, 1887, aged 83. 
Sarah S., his wife, died Mar. 25. 1888. aged 72. 

Safe within the Fold. 

Lewis, son of Alfred & Sarah Harger, died Jan. 3, 1837, aged 8 mos. 
Burton Harger, died Dec. 16, 1861. aged 25 years. 
In memory of Elijah Hawkins, who died Feb. 23d. 1809, aged 61. 
Anna, his first wife, died Dec. 2d. 1794, aged 45. 

S. H. M. H. Z. H. R. H. 
1 77 1 1774 1806 1786. 

By this stone are deposited the remains of Capt. Zachariah Haw- 
kins, a worthy and respectable member of society, who in the 
90th year of his age died in faith and hope, June 27th, MD 
CCCVL He had 14 children who all survived him, 82 grand- 
children & 95 great-grandchildren. 

vSarah his first wife is buried in Derby, by whom he had Sarah & 
Mercy. 

Mary his 2d wife is buried 12 feet on the left of this stone, by whom 
he had Mary, John, Elizabeth, Elijah, Anna, Gaylord. Ruth, 
Silas, Joseph, Moses & Isaac. 

Rachel his 3d wife lies close by this on the left, by whom he had 
Zachariah. 

Lydia his relict and his sons erect this monument, their tribute of 
gratitude, love and honor. 

Silas Hawkins. Jr., Died July 3, 1890, Aged 64 3'rs. &8 mo. 
Sarah M. Loveland wife of Silas Hawkins, Sr., Died Jan. 3, 1888. 

Aged 86. 
Eri Hawkins, son of Silas & Sarah Hawkins, died Jan. 29, 1812, 

in the 17 year. 
Asa Hawkins. Died Dec. 9. 1868. aged 72. 
In memory of Wm., son of Asa lS: Hannah Hawkins, who died Oct. 

22, 1825. 7E 15 mo's. 
Hannah, wife of Asa Hawkins, died Feb. 12, 1885. aged 86. 
Royal J., son of Samuel & Celestia Hawkins, died Jan. /4, 1880, 

JE 4 mo & 19 D's. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 127 

Phebe A., child of Lewis & Mary G. Hawkins, died Aug. 3, 1869. 
2E 4 yrs & 8 mo's. 

He shall gather the lambs in His arms and carry them in His bosom. 

Charles Nathan, son of Charles and Louisa Hawkins, died July 7, 
1863, JE 6 years. 

We miss thee. 

Sarah Minerva, daughter of Charles & Louisa Hawkins, died July 

18, 1863, aged 10 yr's & 6 mo. 

Not dead but sleepeth. 

Mary Louisa, daughter of Charles and Louisa Hawkins, died May 

19, 1875, aged 20 yrs. 

Cynthia, daughter of Isaac and Sally Hinman, died Aug. 22, 1823, 

aged 12 years & 7 months. 
Here lies the body of Philo Hinman, who died April 25, 1837. aged 

86, and of Mary, his wife, who died Jan. 4, 1835, aged 78. 
Sherman Hinman, died May 20, 1876, aged 32. 

When the spirit from the flesh is freed 
And hastens home to return. 
Mortals cry — A man is dead — 
Angels sing a child is born. 

In memoriam. Jennie J,, daughter of L. A. and E. J. Hotchkiss, 
died July 12, [882, Aged 28 y'rs. 

Sweet be thy rest. 

Martha M., wife of Samuel Hubbell, died Feb. 2, 18S0, JE 48 yrs. 
Phebe L., her daughter, died Sept. 23, 1879. Aged 8 years. 
Mary, wife of Abijah Hyde, died Oct. 8, 1861. /E 69. 
Sarah H., daughter of Abijah and Mary Hyde, died June 22, 1837. 

JE 9 mo. 
Sally, wife of Abijah Hyde, died July 24, 1834. JE 42. 
Abijah Hyde died Nov. 7, 1864. 7E 72. 
Lucius C. Hyde died June 20, 1824. ^E 21. 
In memory of Mrs. Eunice, wife of Julius Kimberly, who died Dec. 

19, 1826. ^^ 36. 
Lucy, wife of Julius Kimberly, died Eeb. 24, 1876. Aged 75 years. 
Albert A., son of Julius & Lucy Kimberly, died at Baton Rouge Dec. 

1863. Aged 35 yrs & 3 mo's. 
Isaac Nichols, died Aug. i, 1862. Aged 53 y'rs. 
Russell Nichols, died June 24, 1849. Aged 73. 

Nabby, wife of Russell Nichols, died Dec. 13, 1862. Aged 84 y'rs. 
In memory of Riggs Nichols who died May 17, 1844. In the 44 

year of his age. 
Jane Caroline, daughter of Riggs & Sally Nichols, died July 30, 

1835, aged 8 years. 



128 INSCRIPTIONS. 

Prudence, wife of James Pangman,. Died Nov. 8, 1807. Aged 74. 
Comfort, his second wife, died Nov. 3, 1798. Aged 42 years. 
Gideon Perry, died July 19, 1814, aged 82 years. 
Hannah, his first wife, died May 13, 1788, aged 38 years. 
In memory of EHzabeth Perkins, wife of Daniel Perkins, who died 
Aug. 4. 1793, aged 38 years. 

The dear! no more can soeak thy praise; 
They dwell in silence and the grave. 
But we shall live to sing thy grace. 
And tell the world thy power to save. 

Elizabeth Scoville, 1897-1899. 
Jane Sharpe, aged 46. 

Henry, son of Burrett and Sarah Skeels, died April 20, 1835, aged 
I year and 6 months. 

Sweet innocence and love 

Is not confined in dust. 
My little soul is called above 

To join the angelick host. 

Ira Skeels, died Dec. 22, 1888, aged 70 years. 

Almira, his wife, died Sept. 4, 1884, aged 63 years. 

In memory of Sally, wife of Arad Skeels, who died Sept. 29th, 

1810, aged 33. 
In memory of Arad Skeels, who died July 21, 1855, aged 76 years. 
Charlie J., son of G. C. and Elizabeth O. Sperry. Died Sept. 7, 

1859, aged 4 ys. 

God gathers His pure and innocent flower; 

His life from earth was riven. 
God plucked this little bud from earth 

To open its leaves in Heaven 

MONUMENT. 

John Smith, died Mar. 23, 1868. Aged "jj. 

Grace, his wife, died Nov. 9, 1848. Aged 58. 

Bennett, died in Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 16, 1846, aged 24. 

Laura, died May 7, 1850, aged 22. 

Lucy, died July 25, 1884, aged 64. 

Mrs. Lydia Thomas, an amiable woman. She was wife of Nathan 
Taylor of Litchfield and Capt. Zachariah Hawkins of Oxford. 
She died Aug. 4, 1820. 
Florence A. Thrall, died Aug. 2, 1883. Aged i year & 2 mos. 

^ Dau. of Curtis and Alice Thrall. 
In memory of Silas Tomlinson, who died Nov. 15, 1829. Aged 53. 
Also Polly, his wife, died Aug. 15, 1842. Aged 65. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 129 

Edmund B. Tomlinson, died in the hospital, Newbern, Nov. 2, 
1862. Aged 20. He was a member of Co. A, loth Reg. C. 
. v., and served in the Battles of Roanoke and Newbern. 

" We loved him. O! how dearly." 

In memory- of Juliette, wife of Burke Tomlinson, who died Oct. 7, 

1853. Aged 42 3'rs. and 7 mo. 
In memory of Burke Tomlinson, who died Sept. 1842. Aged 35 

3TS. & 6 mo. 
Charity Wooster, born July 26, 1767; died Dec. 25, 1857. M 90 yrs. 
Nathaniel Wooster, born Nov. 25, 1766; died Nov. 23, 1855. 7E 

89 yrs. 
Marcus Wooster, died July 2, ^839, aged 25. 
Sarah Jane, daughter of Bennet and Sarah Wooster, died Sept. 13, 

183 1, aged 5 years. 
In memory of Anna Maria Wooster, daughter of Nathaniel and 

Charity Wooster, who died Oct. 29, 1794, aged 11 mos. 
In memory of Mr. Arthur Wooster, who died Aug. 6. 1796. 
Sarah, his wife, died July 12, 1808, aged 48. 
Frank P. Wooster, 1852 — 1895. 
Henrietta A., his wife, 1856 — 
J. L. W. 

Edith Marion. 1882— 1895. Dau. of F. P. and H. A. Wooster. 
The grave of Leverett Candee. son of Horace and Caroline Candee, 

who died Aug. 13, 1837, aged 13 yrs. and 10 mo. 

Unknown to fortune, tamo, or vice, 
Delitrht of parent.s. brothers, sisters, all. 
None doubt he's more happy thrice. 
Than friends who mourn his untimely fall ; 
Yet who'd but lament the tlijfht of one. 
So yountr. so promising, so virtuous. 
Scarce reached his teens when called upon 
To meet his God in realms of bliss. 

Wales A. Hubbell, died May 16, 1866. Ai 23. 

"Those who cherished and loved him 

Now are left to weep and sigrh ; 
Yet we have these words to cheer. 

He was not afraid to die." 

Jane E. Sperry, wife of Everett Hubbell, died Jan. 13, 1877. JE 66. 

"Yea thoutrh I walk throu^rh the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, 
for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." 

Leonard A. Hotchkiss, died Sept. 4, 1865. ■ /E 38. 
Elizabeth J., his wife and only daughter of Everett and Jane E. 
Hubbell, died Sept. 30, 1863. M 32. 

Sleep, sleep on dear friends. 

Death can't us long divide: 
A few more rolling suns 

Will lay me by your side. 



130 OXFORD. 

Sacred to the memory of Ruth Judson, died Sept. ii, 1839, ^ 64. 

As a wife and parent she was kind, affectionate and exemplary and died 
in hope of glorious immortality. 

Sacred to the memory of Mr. Wells Judson, who departed this life 
June 18, 1827, in the 73d year of his age. 

A man of strict integrity, which will ever make his name revered by his friends. 



A VISIT TO PLEASANT VALE. 

By Miss Eliza Jane Stephens. 

(The following very happy poetic desciiption of what is 
kuown as " Pleasant Vale, " extending from Zoar Bridge on the 
Houstatonic to the location of the Dawson Woolen factory, 
will be familiar to those who were acquainted with tae place 
some years ago It marks the the changes of time in that 
locality very feelingly.) 

And this is dear old Pleasant Vale, 

Once so familiar to my sight. 
Here is the fair extended view, 

A youthful fancy's loved delight. 

Again I hear the river's song, 

And mark its rapid ceaseless flow, 
And watch it shimmer in the sun, 

As in the days of long ago. 

This is the path I used to tread 

At early morn and close of day, 
'Tis worn as smooth and winds about 

The same inexplicable way. 

Here was the store where dainty sweets 
Were placed in jars to tempt our gaze. 

How covetous we soon become, 

What spendthrifts too in childish ways. 

That building has a brighter look. 

And more of dainties in display. 
But time has wrought its wonted change; 

I pass without regret to day. 

M}' road is near the mountain's base, 

Huge rocks o'erhead 'twould seem might fall. 

While mosses grew on every ledge, 

And wild flowers bloom about them all. 

The blacksmith shop was just beyond, 
Where truant ones were sure to tire; 

They loved to watch the smithy's work 
And linger round his cheerful fire. 



PLEASANT VALE. 



131 




THE PLEASANT VALE SCHOOLHOUSE. 



There's nothing now to mark the spot, 
Except the weeds are ranker grown, 

And bits of coal are mingled with 
A shapeless mass of dirt and stone. 

A little farther was a cot. 

With roses clustering ronnd the door. 
The house is gone — its habitants 

Are dwelling on the brighter shore. 

And now I reach the quaint old church, 
A long and well-remembered place. 

Time was when mid its worshipers 
I scarce beheld a stranger's face. 

Again I stand upon the step. 
And look within the open door, 

How quickly memory pictures there 
The listening throng that met of yore. 

The quiet graveyard is close by; 

Each stone bears some familiar name; 
And here and there an epitaph 

The sleeper's virtues yet proclaim. 



132 OXFORD. 

In childhood oft I sought this ground; 

To me 'twas neither sad or drear, 
For cheerily the blackbirds sang, 

In groves of pines then growing near. 

And on the hillside just below 

We found fine ferns and berries sweet, 

And made beneath the maple shade 
A mimic house we thought complete. 

The rude stone bridge still spans the stream, 
Where youthful anglers tried their skill 

Till many torn and brimless hats 

Were proof they'd labored with a will. 

Below the bridge a vvealth of mint 
And rushes tall and thrifty grew. 

We gathered these at morn and noon, 
Now happily other children do. 

The schoolhouse is the very same 
That memory long has held so dear, 

For happier hours I ne'er have known 
Than those that passed so quickly here. 

Those youthful friends, where are they now .-* 
I try to trace their worldly lot. 

Though some have erred and some are dead, 
Among them all there's none forgot. 

The stern old scholar, too, who came 
And questioned us in ancient lore 

Has passed beyond our mortal ken 
And wiser is than e'er before. 

lie had his faults — we'll pass them by — 
His virtues our remembrance claim. 

And now that we are growing gray. 
Will evei kindly speak his name. 

The factory's hum is heard no more, 
For ruin there is all complete. 

And nothing breaks the silence now 

But babbhng brooks and songsters sweet. 

But this is still dear Pleasant Vale, 
(A homely spot to some it seems), 

But passing through it once again 
Recalls for me life's brightest dreams. 



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From the Records of Christ Church, Quaker Farms. 



A list of members and children, with sundry dates as far as given in the records. 

Henry E. Bidwell, Julia A. Bidwell. 
Adeline Booth, Frederick Booth. 
John F. and Mary Ann Brush, m. 1841. 
James Bradley, confirmed June 3, 1864. 
Chester and Roxy Bunnell, m. Feb. 12, 1814. 
George and Sarah Bunnell, m. Feb, 13, 1848, 
William and Rebecca Butler, m. Mar. 1841. 
Chas. Henry Butler, b. July 21, 1844. 
Mary Butler b. Sept. — —1850. 

Inice Butler, b. Feb. ^1854. 

Samuel Candee, Lucy Ann Candee. (No dates given.) 

Martha Candee, b. Nov. 7, 1836. 

Horace Candee, m. 1816, d. Apr. 12, i860, aged 73. 

Sterne Candee, d. Mar, i, 1905, buried ist cemetery, Mar. 4, IQ^S- 

Age 'J'] . Residence, Westboro, Mass. 
Mary Chatfield, m. July 15, 1822. 
Wales Chatfield, b. Dec. 15, 1837. 
Thirza Chatfield, m. Feb. 8, 1823. 
Albert Chatfield. 

Sarah Ann Chatfield, b. Mar. 16, 1843, bap. Dec. 6, 1863. 
John Jarvis and Cornelius, ch. of Cornelius and Sarah B. Clark, 

bap. Apr. 9, 1876. 
Agur Curtis, Betsey Curtis, m. Feb. 4, 1815. 
Wm. A. Curtis, b. Nov. 3, 1848. 
Caroline E. Curtis, b. June 16, 1850. 
Sarah M. Curtis, b. June 29, 1852, 

Anson R. Davis and Mary Newton, m. May 8. 1845. He died 
May 4, 1885. Children: 

Mary Elvira, b. Dec. 15, 1846; bap. June 6, 1847. 

Ellen Lucy, b. May 27, 1849; bap. July 14, 1850. 



134 OXFORD. 

Laura Booth, b. Nov. 24, 1850; bap. Sept. 21. 1851. 
Emma Eugenia, b. Aug. 11, 1854; bap. July 15, 1855. 
Charles AlHng, b. June 13, 1858. 
EvaHne Ameha, bap. Jan. 8, 1863. 
Estella Louisa, bap. Jan. 8, 1863. 

Amy M. Downs, bap. 1818, m. June 14, 1820. 

Milo Edmunds, b. Dec. 22, 1818, and Lydia Maria Bunnell, b. June 

7, 1825, m. Nov. 14, 1845. 
Mary R. Edmonds, b. Nov. 14, 185 1. 
Chas. P. Edmonds, b. Sept. 19. 1854. 
Mary Ann, George, Elizabeth, Agnes, ch. of Benjamin English, 

bap. Sept. 19, 1847. 
George A. Flagg, b. Aug. 20, 181 1, m. Jan. 21, 1835. 
Mariette C. Flagg. b. Mar. 15, 1812, m. Jan. 21. 1835. 
Francis J. Flagg, b. Mar. 5, 1836. 
Mary I. Flagg, b. Aug. 14, 1838. 
Clark B. Flagg, b. Jan. 21, 1841. 
George A. Flagg, b. Mar. 17, 1843. 
James A. Freeman, b. Dec. 8, 1852. 

Ira Lincoln, son of Chas. and Laura J. Hawkins, bap. Mar. 27, 1864. 
Charles Hawkins, b. Apr 22. 1859, bap. 1859, I ^. Dec. 17, 1848. 
Louisa J. Hawkins, bap. 1832, ) 

Sarah Minerva Hawkins, b. Jan. 17, 1853, ) 
Mary Louise Hawkins, b. Feb. 16, 1855, >■ bap. Apr. 22, 1859. 
Charles Nathan Hawkins, b. Aug. 5, 1859, ) 

Grace Amelia, dau. of Chas. and Louisa Hawkins, b. Sept. 15, 1869. 
Silas Hawkins. 
Frederick Hawley. 

Mary E. Hendryx, b. Mar. 183 1. m. Apr. 2, 1852. 
Frank Hendryx, b. Nov., 1853. 
Oscar Hendryx, b. June, 1858. 
Frank Riggs, son of Harry and Mary E. Hendryx, b. Nov. 16, 

1853, bap. Apr. 9, 1865. 
Oscar Eugene, son of Harry and Mary E. Hendryx, b. June 12, 

1858, bap. Apr. 9. 1865. 
Lucy Hendryx. 

Jenette Hine, b. Jan. 29, 1805, m. Dec. 15, 1822. 
Sherman S. Hine, b. Aug. 1829, and Mary H. Hine. b. June, 1836, 

m. Nov. 20, 1855. 
Preston Hinman. 



RECORDS OF CHRIST CHURCH. 135 

Silas Everette, a. 7 yrs., George Wales, a. 21 mo., ch. of John P. 

and Celestia Hubbell, bap. Aug. 4, 1869. 
John C. Hull and Julia Sherman, m. Jan. 18, 1858. 
John and Ann M. Hull, m. Jan. 28, 1844. 
Augusta Hull, b. Nov. 11, 1844. 
Albert Hull, b. Apr. 23, 1846. 
John Cyrus Hull, b. Oct. 30, 185 1. 
Lottie Jay Hull, b. Apr. 22, 1859. 
Alice Naurudan, dau. of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus E. Hyde, bap. Apr. 

II, 1869. 
Mary Augusta Hyde, b. July 13, 1871. 
Ira Hyde, m. Jan. i, 182 1. 
Marcus E. Hyde. 
Ann J. Jackson, Sept. 9, 1837. 

Samuel A. Jackson, b. July 31, 1840, d. July 22, 1859. 
Leonora Jackson, b. Feb. 16, 1841. 
Carlos Jackson, b. Aug. 30, 1844. 
Isabella Jackson, b. Nov. 30, 1846. 
Adin and Mabel Johnson, m. Nov. 23, 1808. 
Albert A. and Abigail Kimberly, m. Mar. 23, 1850. 
Edwin E. and Maria T. Lewis, Mar. 23, 181 5. She d. Jand. 10, 

1868, a. 78. 
Edwin E. Lewis, 2d, d. May 28, 1880, aged 89. 
Sheldon Clark, son of Clark B. and Nancy Cornelia Lines, bap. 

Oct. 3, 1850. 

Sylvia E. Low, m. Mar. . 

Jane C. Lum, b. Apr. 14, 1818, m. Sept. 13, 1840, d. Oct. 25, 1892. 

Joseph Davis and Ellen, ch. of John Lum, bap. Sept. 19, 1847. 

Stephen S. and Flora M. Mallett, bap. Oct. 1833. m. May 13, i843- 

David T. Meigs, b. Feb. 21, 1821. 

Mary Lorena, dau. of Charles and Bernice Meigs, bap. July 30, 1870. 

Charles Edward, son of Charles and Bernice Meigs, b. June i, 1872. 

Sally Nichols, m. Sept. 1826. 

Harriet O. Nichols, b. Apr. 1838. 

Benjamin and Minerva Nichols, m. Mar. 24, 1839. 

Arthur Russell, son of Benjamin and Minerva Nichols, bap. Mar. 

3, I849- 
Nancy E. Nichols, b. June 12, 1843. 
Nabbie Nichols, m. about i8d3, d. Dec. 13, 1862. 
Sally Nichols, m. Sept. 1826. 



136 OXFORD. 

Harriet O. Nichols, b. Apr. 1838. 
Benjamin Nichols, m. Mar. 24, 1839. 
Minerva Nichols, m. Mar. 24, 1839. 
Nancy E. Nichols, b. June 12, 1843. 
Nabbie Nichols, m. about 1800, d. Dec. 13, 1862. 
Arthur Russell, son of Benj. Nichols, bap. Mar. 3, 1849. 
Elisha Oatman. b. Mar. 16, 1774, m. ist, 1794.; 2d, about 1837. 
Damaris Oatman, b. Mar. 25, 1772. m. about 1837. 
David and Olive Oatman, m. Apr. 1816. 

Horace and Polly Oatman, m. Oct. 6, 18 — . She died July 10, 1884. 
Charles R. and Orinda Oatman, m. Jan. i, 1850. 
Lillie E. Oatman, b. May 29, 1854 
George B. and Frances Oatman. m. Nov. 25, 185 1. 
Edward L. Oatman, b. July 4, 1853. 
William J. Oatman, b. Feb. 1857. 
Mary N. Parish, bap. Nov. 22, 1868. 
Harmon A. and Emma J. Perry, m. Nov. 23, 1835. 
Horace B. Perry, b. Nov 10, 1841. 
Henry A. Perry, b. Nov. 10, 1841. 
Frederick A. Perry, b. Sept. 10, 1844. 

Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of Mrs. James Radcliffe, bap. Apr. 22, 1859. 
Cornelius Clark Rider, and his wife Sarah Bostwick, July 14, 1867. 
William Tomlinson, a. 9 yrs, Lillian Orinda, a. 5 yrs, Ralph 
Wheeler, a. 3 yrs, Bennett Hurd, a. i yr, ch. of Cornelius 
C. and Sarah Rider, bap. July 21, 1867. 
Martha Elizabeth, dau. of C. C. and Sarah (Bostwick) Rider, bap. 

May 9, 1869. 
John F. and Phebe Ritchie, m. Dec. 3, 1846 ; children: 

Chas. H. Ritchie, b. Mar. 19, 1847. 

Sarah Ann Ritchie, b. Oct. 2, 1848. 

Phebe Elizabeth Ritchie, b. May 2, 1850. 

Alice A. Ritchie, b. May 5, 1852. 

Emeline Ritchie, b. Feb. 2, 1854. 

Washington Franklin Ritchie, b. Dec. 13, 1856. 
Harriet Sanford, m. Dec. 8, 1825. 
George P. Sanford, 
S. P. Sanford. 
Marvin R. Sanford. 
Harriet E. Sanford. 
Henrietta E. Sanford. 



RECORDS OF CHRIST CHURCH. T37 

Grace Hyde, dau. of Rev. U. P. Sanford, bap. May i/, 1848. 

Sybil Skeeles. 

Cornelia Ann Skidmore, Aug. 14, 1870. 

John Smith, m. Feb. 29, 18 [5. 

Mary Ann, dau. of John Smith, bap. Oct. 5, 1848. 

Lucy Smith. 

George Smith. 

Laura Cornelia, Lucy Esther, ch, of Ephraim Smith, bap. Sept. 

19. 1847- 
Geo. C. Tomlinson and Delia Skeeles, m. Oct. 18, 1835. 
Geo. A. Tomlinson, m. ist, 1830; 2d, Ellen . 1842. He d. 

Dec. 9. i860. 
Geo. A. Tomlinson, (2d) b. Jan. 17, 1832. 
Maria Antoinette Tomlinson, b. Mar. 7, 1838. 
Eliza Tomlinson, b. Feb. 28, 1843. 
Jane Caroline Tomlinson, b. Mar. 6, 1843. 
Nancie E. Tomlinson, b. June 12, 1843. 

Charles Augustus Tomlinson, m. Eliza , Oct. 15, 1843. 

Willard Earl Tomlinson, b. Sept. 15, 1845; bap. Aug. 11, 1850. 
Phebe Augusta Tomlinson, b. Apr. 22, 1859. 

Wm. R. Tomlinson and Hannah , m. Mar. 27, 1841. 

Henrietta Tomlinson, bap. May 22, 1864. 

Harriet A. Tomlinson, bap. May 22, 1864. 

Phebe A. Tomlinson, bap. Apr. 22, 1859. 

Ellen Tomlinson, bap. May 22, 1864. 

Hannah Tomlinson, b, Dec. 14, 1807, bap. May 22, 1864. 

Henrietta Tomlinson, b. Feb. 18, 1836, bap. May 22, 1864. 

Harriet Abzora Tomlinson, b. July 5. 1837, bap. May 22, 1864. 

Ellen Tomlinson, b. , bap. May 22, 1864. 

Caroline Ellen, and Bennett Albert, ch. of Robert Treat, bap. 

Sept. 19, 1847. 
Mr. Albert Treat. 
Mrs, Albert Treat. 
Roswell Waters and Harriette , m. July, 1817. She died 

Nov. 24, 1863. 
Theodore Frelinghuysen, son of Erastus and Lydia Augustus 

Wheeler, b. Aug. 10, 1840; bap. Dec, 10, 1845. 

Philo Wooster and Sally , m. May 18, 1806, 

Adam Dietz Wooster. 

Mark Wooster, bap. Feb. 27, 1824. 



138 OXFORD. 

Daniel Wooster, m. , Caroline , 1835. 

John Wooster. 

Mary A. Wooster, m. Sept. 9, i860. 

Charles Wooster, bap. Sept. 24. 1851. 

Harriett Wooster, b. Jan. 7, 1847, bap. May 22, 1864. 

Frances Maria, dau. of Thos. N. Wooster, bap. Sept. 19, 1847. 

MARRIAGES. 

Oct. 7, 1845, Frederick A. Candee and Louisa A. Hotchkiss, both 

of Oxford. 
Nov. 19, 1845, Milo Edmonds and Lydia Maria Bnnnell. 
Apr. 9, 1846. Alson Hendryx and Mrs. Lucy Kimberl3\ both of 

Oxford. 
Oct. II, 1847. Charles L. Dick of Newtown and Sarah E. Meigs 

of Oxford. 
Jan. 24, 1848, Enos Benham of Woodbury and Betsy Ann Waters 

of Oxford. 
Feb. 13, 1848, George Bunnell and Sarah A. Tumlinson, both of 

Oxford. 
June 27, 1848, Wm. Pendleton of Westville and Ruth Ann Candee 

of Oxford. 
Oct. 18, 1848, Wm. J. Dick of Newtown and Caroline Candee of 

Oxford. 
July 21, 1850, Edwin Tomlinson of Seymour aud Charlotte R., dau. 

of Ira Hyde, of Oxford-. 
Feb. 2, 185 1, William Church of Oxford and Mary A., dau. of 

Daniel L. Holbrook, of Seymour. 
Mar. 23, 185 1, Albert, son of Julius Kimberly, and Abigail Taylor, 

both of Oxford. 
Ap. 14. 185 1, Russell Waters of Oxford and Mary Ann Cassida of 

Pl3'mouth. 
July 20, 185 1, John Roberts of Southbury and Orry Wheeler of 

Derby. 
Oct. 31, 1851, Oliver Downs and Julia A. Bissell. both of Oxford. 
Mar. 7, 1852, Francis James Lewis of Newtown and Nancy Aurelia 

Williams of Prospect. 
Mar. 14, 1852, Nicholas D. Hinman of Oxford and Susan A. Peck 

of Birmingham. 
Jan. 3, 1853, John Smith, 2nd, and Sarah Lucinda Treat, both of 

Oxford. 



RECORDS OF CHRIST CHURCH. 139 

Feb. 6, 1853, Richard H. Dorson and Elizabeth Bryan, both of 

Oxford. 
Mar. 7, 1853. Philander Sharp and Almina Lewis, both of Monroe. 
June 17, 1853, Leonard Hotchkiss and Elizabeth Hnbbell, both of 

Oxford. 
May 7, 1854, Isaac Riley Cornwall of Milford and Eunice Abigail 

Brockett of North Haven. 

BURIALS. 
Silas Beach, d. Oct. 12, 1853, a. T"]. 
Mrs. Ruth, wife of Silas Beach, d. Dec. ii, 185 1, a. 73. 
Clark French, son of Clark Beach and Jane Maria Downs, of Wol- 

cottville, d. Oct. 10, 1853, a. 10 wks. 
Mary, widow of Clark Beardsley, d. Feb. 4, 1853. a. 72. 
Sheldon Beebe, d. April 26, 1852, a. 58. 
Henrietta Martha, dau. of Sheldon and Lydia Beebe, d. Aug. 16, 

1851, a. 3 yrs., 5 mo. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Beecher, d. Oct. 25, 185 1, a. 73. 
Mary D.. wife of Henry Bidwell, d. Oct. 8, 1852, a. 47. 
Mrs. Henrietta Botsford, wife of Hiel Botsford and dau. of Divid 

Oatman, d. May 21, 1850, a. 26. 
Esther Cornelia, dau. of William E. and Anna M. Booth, d. Nov, 

13, 1854, a. 16 yrs, 2 mo. 26 da. 
Chester Bunnell, bu. Sept. 15, 1862, a. 62. 
Truman Bunnell, d. May i, 1848, a. 78. 

Mrs. Caroline, wife of Horace Candee, d. Sept. 28, 185 1, a. 64. 
Roxy, wife of John Candee, bu. Nov. 20, 1858, a. 22. 
John F., son of Frederick H. and Priscilla Chatfield, d. Oct. 3, 

1851, a. 4 mo. 
David Kiny Chatfield, d. Sept. 15, 1853, a. 70. 

Mrs. Mamie, wife of Chatfield, d. Jan. 30, 1855, a. 6^ . 

John R., son of Agur Curtiss, d. in New Haven, Nov. 6, 1852, a. 30. 
Sarah H., dau. of Agur and Betsey Curtiss, bu. Apr. 17, 1859, a. 42, 
Sarah Jane, dau. of Nichols and Nancy French, d. June 6, 1851, 

a. 3 yrs, 7 mo. 
Ira Hawkins, d. Jan. 8, 1853, a. 62. 
Sally, wife of Ira Hawkins, d. Oct. 8. 1852, a. 58. 
Alson Hendryx, d. Aug. 23, 1854, a. 62. 

Mrs. Cynthia Hendryx, wife of Alson Hendryx, d. Nov. 6, 1845. 
Mrs. Jennette Hotchkiss, d. Apr. 13, 1847, a. 43. 



I40 OXFORD. 

Lucretia, wife of Henry Hinman, d. Sept. 24. 1855. a. 57. 

, son of John Hull, d. Feb. 28, 1849, a. 9 mo. 

Nancy Cornelia, wife of Clark Lines, d. Nov. 12, 1850, a. 22. 

Samuel Meigs, d. Apr. 10, 1855. 

William Henry, son of Samuel and Hannah Meigs, d. Aug. 25, 

1850, a. 14. 

Whiting Mitchell, d. Dec. 24, 1845, a. 78. 
Nabbie Nichols, bu. Dec. 15, 1862, a. 83. 
Arthur Russell, son of Benjamin and Minerva Nichols, d. Sept. 11, 

185 1, a. 4 yrs, 9 mo. 

Lillie E. Oatman, bu. Feb. 12, 1862, a. 8. 

Arad Skeeles, d. July 23, 1855, a. 78. 

Lucy Smith, relict of John Smith, d. Mar. 26. 1853, a. 92. 

Laura, dau. of John Smith, d. May 10, 1850. 

Grace Smith, d. Nov. 10. 1848. 

Juliet, relict of Burke Tomlinson, d. in Birmingham, Oct. 9, 1853, 

a. 43. 
David W., son of George A. Tomlinson, d. Apr. 30, 1854, a. 19. 
Mrs. Amaritta, widow of James Wakely, in Huntington, d. Oct. 4, 

1850, a. 92. 
Curtiss Waters, d. Dec. 28, 185 1, a. 69. 

Harriet Waters, widow of Roswell, bu. Nov. 26, 1863, a. 64. 
Inona Sophia Wildman, d. Dec. ro, 1845. a. 13. 
Caroline, wife of Daniel Wooster, d. Oct. 185 1, a. 44. 
Nathaniel Wooster, d. Nov, 23, 18:55, a. 91. 



OXFORD. 



141 




THE CHRISTOPHER SMITH HOMESTEAD. 



THE CHRISTOPHER SMITH FAMILY. 



Christopher Smith was born in Eng- 
land in 1734 and with his two brothers 
came to Connecticut in 1754. He mar- 
ried the widow Abisrail (Harger) Chat- 
field and built a home about 1759 in 
what is now the southwesterly part of 
Oxford, then a part of the town of 
Derby, east of the Great Hill school 
house. The house was large, with the 
conveniences common at that period, a 
stone chimney with a huge fireplace 
which served alike for heat and cooking, 
kettles being hung on an iron crane 
which swung in and out of the fireplace. 



This fireplace, with the brick oven, 
occupied the whole side of the kitchen; 
the oven requiring a specially pre- 
pared wood for the weekly heating for 
the baking, the ashes' being saved for 
lye for soap making, and for fertilizer. 
In the basement kitchen, was a large 
furnace kettle set in masonry where 
the soft soap was made, food for hogs 
was sometimes cooked and sometimes 
maple sugar was made in it by boiling 
down the sap of the sugar maple. Near 
this was the chimney closet, or smoke 
room, where the hams, bacon and dried 



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beef were smoked, the latter often dry- 
ing on the hooks in the kitchen ceiling 
in company with the pie timber, strings 
of apples and riags of pumpkin festooned 
therefrom. 

In the attic was a hand loom on which 
woolen and linen cloths were woven, the 
woolens being from the wool of sheep 
raised on the farm, and the linen from 
flax grown there and hetcheled, bleached 
and spun by members of the house- 
hold. From this homemade linen 
were made articles of bed and table wear, 
as well as underclothing and the finest of 
the men's garments. From the woolens 
slowly woven on this big loom in the 
attic were made the men's and women's 
outer garments, blankets and winter 
sheets. Llnsey woolsey, a mixed cloth 
of linen and wool, for women's common 
dresses and aprons, was also woven on 
the old loom. 

The family attended services in the 
old Great Hill Presbyterian church 
situated on top of the hill where some 
of the old stone cellar may be seen 
today near ihe Davis place. 

Christopher Smith served in Col. Lati- 
mer's regiment, which went to reinforce 
Gen. Gates at Saratoga in August, 1777. 
and was assigned to Col. Poor's Con 
tiuental Brigade in Arnold's Division, 
and fought in both battles Sept. 19 and 
Oct. 9. In the first battle this and one 
other Connecticut regiment lost more 
than any other two regiments in the 
field. Upon their dismissal after the 
surrender of Burgoyne, Gates spoke of 
them as "two excellent militia regi- 
ments from Connecticut." 

The children of Christopher and Abi- 
gail Smith were Lucy, Abigail, Hannah 
and John. 

Lucy Smith, daughter of Christopher 
and Abigail, married Jeremiah Sheltou, 
of White Hills. Their children were 
Gloriana, Eliza, Horace and Smith. 
Gloriana Shelton became the second 
wife of James Smith, son of Abraham, 



who was the head of another old family 
of Derby. James' grandmother, Sarah 
French Smith, was a granddaughter of 
one of the first Episcopal clergyman of 
Di-rby, Rev. John Bowers, graduate of 
Harvard college. Gloriana Shelton 
Smith had one daughter, Maryett, who 
was organist of St. James' church, Der- 
by, for a number of years, and died un- 
married. 

Abraham Smith was great great 
grandfather to Marietta, wife of Edgar 
H., son of John 2nd. 

Abigail Smith, daughter of Christo- 
pher and Abigail, married David Perkins 
and settled on the north corner of the 
farm, near a road which bore the name 
Perklane, from the Rockhouse Hill road 
to Moose Hill, which has been closed to 
public travel for the past thirtyfive 
years. Their children were Harriet, 
Sarah, Luciuda, Laura, and Hannah. 

Hannah Smith, daughter of Christo- 
pher and Abigail, married William 
Wateis. Their children were Hannah, 
William and Susan. Hannah Waters 

married Tucker, uncle to Reuben 

Tucker of Ansonia, in the Waters home- 
stead, and lived at the west corner of 
the Smith farm on the Ruck-house Hill 
road, which liter became the property 
of Ephraim, sou of John Smith first, 
thence descei^ding to Ephraim's daughter 
Cornelia, wife of Morrell Francis, who 
with their son and his family now reside 
there. 

Johu Smith, 1st, son of Christopher 
and Abigail, b. July, 1776, married Anna 
Fantou, of W lite Hills, and settled in 
the homestead and had a family of ten, 
two dying in childhood. He died in 1858, 
aged 82. Shedied June6, 1858. Children: 

Nancy, b. 1799; d Oct. 5, 1858. 

Christopher, b. 1802; d. May 7, 1866. 

Stephen, b. 1804. 

Laura, died in infancy. 

Ephraim, b. 1806. 

Lucy, b. 1808, d. aged 2 years. 

Grant, b. 1810. 



THE CHRISTOPHER SMITH FAMILY. 



143 



Sheldon, b. 1813. 
John. b. 1815, d. June 8, 1890. 
Laura, 2nd, b. in 1816; d. in 1827. 
Nancy, daughter of John 1st and Anna 
Fanton Smith, died unmarried. She 
was a tailoress by trade and carried on 
business in what is now Seymour, then 
Humphreysville. 

Christopher, 2d, eldest son of John'and 
Anna, married Lucinda Bunnell and 
settled on the estate. One son, George 
"William, nicknamed Billy Chris, married 
at the age of seventeen years, Harriet 
Eliza Hitchcock, of the same age, and 
settled in Squantuck, where in after life 
he was famed as fisherman, also a wood 
sawyer in the sawmill there. He had 
a family of eight, six dying in childhood. 
Lucinda, wife of Christopher, 2d, died 
Aug. 9, 1846, aged 45 years. 

Frank H., son of Geo. W., married 
Lavinia Lewis, of New Jersey, and 
settled in Squantuck. He had an only 
child, Etta, who died in 1906, aged 21 
years. 

Fanny, daughter of Geo. W. Smith, 
married Isaac Tomlinson, a native of 
SquantHck, but spent the last years of 
his life in Bridgeport, where a daughter, 
Mrs. Ithamar N. Burke, now lives, Fred- 
erick, son of Isaac and Fanny Tomlin- 
son, married, and he and wife both died 
in Bridgeport, leaving a son Freddie and 
dau:?hter Noretta, with their grand- 
mother, Fanny Smith Tomlin.son. 
Stephen, second son of John and 

Anna, married Summers, niece 

of Christopher's wife, and settled in 
Woodbury. They had a family of three. 
Henry, the son, died young, unmarried. 
Cornelia married William Plumb Barto, 
of Woodbury, later settled iu Thomas- 
ton, no children. Josephine married 
Sidney Taylor, and settled in Woodbury. 
Sheldon Smith, third son of John and 
Anna, settled in Plymouth, by trade a 
shoemaker, but later worked in the Seth 
Thomas clock shops. He married Susan 



Baldwin and had a family of three. Al 
bert, who married Christina J. Christy, 
a Scotch woman, and had 3 children : 

Jennie, who married Beach and 

resides in Waterbury; and Hugh, who 
married and has a family in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., besides a married daughter in 
Waterbury. Alfred removed to Brook- 
lyn after giving up his business in Bris- 
tol, where the youngest daughter, Mrs. 
Arthur King, resides. 

Charles, son of Sheldon and Susan 
Baldwin Smith, resides in the town of 
Westover, where he married his wife 
Josephine, a school teacher. They have 
one daughter, Mrs. Susan Billings, who 
lives at home with her two little giils. 
Ann Smith, daughter of Sheldon and 
Susan Baldwin Smith, married a man 
named Morse, no family, settled in 
Thomaston. 

Grant Smith, son of John 1st and 
Anna Fanton Smith, a cooper by trade, 
worked tor years in the Brauford lock 
works. He married Rebekah Sperry, 
had one son Elizur who married, died, 
and is buried, in Brauford. The latter 
had one son, Harry W., who grew to 
manhood, since then his whereabouts is 
unknown. 

Ephraim, son of John 1st and Anna 
Smith, married Esther, half sister of 
Colonel Daniel Holbrook, of Militia 
fame, whose estate joined the Christo- 
pher Smith homestead. Ephraim follow- 
ed farming and distilling, and raised a 
family of six children. His son Robert 
was a mason by trade, married Janette 
Canfield, no children, settled in Ansonia. 

Sarah, daughter of Ephraim, married 
Beach Shelton, of Vfh'\U Hills, raised a 
family of six. Daniel, son of Beach 
Shelton, who married Harriet Beardsley 
of White Hills, where he settled, has a 
family of four, Raymond, Elizabeth, 
Ada and Gladys. One other died in 
infancy. 

Anna, daughter of Beach Shelton, 



144 



OXFORD. 



married Warren C. Hubbell. They have 
a daughter Elsie and a son Sterling. 
Abbie C. Shellun, daughter of Beach 
Sheltoii, married Charles Jennings, lives 
at White Hills, has one little son, 
Cbarlys Shellon. Sadie, daughter of 
Beach Shelton, married C. C. Beard, of 
Shelton, where they reside. They have 
one child, Marion. 

Miss Lucy Shelton, daughter of Beach 
Shelton, Is a bookkteper in a Shelton 
mill. Frederick Shelton, son of Beach 
Shelton, married Caroline Curtiss of 
Shelton, where they reside, no family. 

Albert, second son of Ephraim, mar- 
ried Mary Hudson of Oxford, settled 
there, and raised a family of four. He 
died in 190S. Mary, hi> daughter, is 
the widow of C. B. Johnson of Oxford, 
where she resides, no family. Adeline 
is a nurse in West Haven, unmarried. 
Herbert, a business man of Fair Haven, 
married. Frederica Bishop has . a son 
Sterling and a daughter Beatrice (Smith). 
Mabel married Chester Newton and has 
a son Warren and a daughter Mildred 
(Newton). 

Laura Cornelia, 2d, daughter of 
Ephraim Smith, widow of Benjamin 
Chatfleld of Oxford, married Morrell 
Francis in 1875, until when she was a 
school teacher in Seymour. They had 
one SOD, Otis C, who married Emma 
Elizabeth Haines of Ansouia, in 1904. 
They have a little daughter, Emma 
Cornelia Frances, born in 1905. The 
Morrell Francis family reside in the 
WatersSmith homestead, RockhouseHill. 

Henry Ephraim, youngest son of 
Ephraim Smith, married Virginia, dau- 
ghter of Marcus and Sarah Green Davis, 
and had a family of nine. Bertha Jan- 
ette died in infancy. Cora Virginia 
died in September, 1901, unmarried, 
aged 26 years. Alice F., trained nurse, 
lives in her own home in New Haven, 
with youngest sister and brothers. 
Sarah, married Frederic Wells and 
settled in Orange, have a family of 



four, Cora Virginia, Norman, and twin 
girls Helen and Hazel. 

Frederic Ephraim, eldest son of Henry 
Ephraim, married Blanche Wells, lives 
in Shelton, have a son, Newell Allen, and 
a daughter Marji>rie. Nancy Janette, 
jouugest daughter of Henry C, is a 
school teacher in West Haven. Benja- 
min Harris, Yale student. Clifford is a 
student. Elmer, in school, resides with 
sisters Alice and Nancy in West Haven. 

Lucy Esther, third and youngest 
daughter of Ephraim and Esther Hoi- 
brook Smith, married Frank H. Downs 
in 1876. Settled in Oxford, Great Hill 
district, Holbrook road. 

John 2d, youngest son of John 1st, and 
Anna Smith, married Sarah Lucinda 
Treat, daughter of Isaac and Elinor Siiles 
Treat of Moose Hill, sister to William 
and Robert Treat, all of Oxford, in 1853. 
She died Mar. 9, 1874. Children : 

Edgar Henry, born in 1854, died in 
1894. 

Oscar Burritt, born in 1857, died Feb. 
20, 1858. 

Laura 2d, youngest daughter of John 
1st and Anna Smith, born 1818, died 
unmarried in 1896. Was a tailoress. 

Edgar Henry, son of John 2d, mar- 
ried Marietta, daughter of Theodore 
Lester and Mary Jane Smith, of Great 
Hill, had a family of bix. E. H. Smith, 
born and died in the same house, like 
his father and grandfather. Bern ice 
Jane Smith, eldest of the children of 
Edgar and Marietta Smith, married 
William Henry Haines of Ansonia in 
1902, has a family of three boys, Milton 
William, born 1903, Edgar Smith, born 
1905, John Russell, born 1907. 

Ethel Gladys, daughter of Edgar and 
Marietta Smith, unmarried, lives on 
New street, Ansonia. Laura Alanta, 
daughter of Edgar and Marietta Smith, 
married Walter Edward Haines in 1904, 
settled at Great Hill, Seymour, have two 
daughters, Viola Gladys, born at Tarry- 
town, N. Y., in 1905, Marjorie Florence, 



OXFORD. 



145 



born in 1907, and a son, Walter Carl, 
born in 1909. Dixon Treat Smith, eldest 
son of Edgar and Marietta Smith, born 
1886, lives with his mother in Ansonia. 
I. Reginald Smith, son of Edgar H., 
born 1888, is a student at the Moody 



school. Mount Hermon. Lester Edgar, 
third und youngest son of Edgar and 
Marit'tta Smith, born 1890, is a student 
in the department of steam and machine 
defiitfti of the Pratt Institute, school of 
Technology, Brooklyn, N. Y., classof '10, 




The Josiah Smith House, South of Zo ir Bridge. 



The building of the house shown 
above was begun by Josiah Smith about 
85 years ago. He lived in the hou.'^e 
next below, how gone. After nearly 
completing the house he gave his home- 
stead to his sou, Josiah, and the new 
house to his son Philo. upon the occasion 
of his marriage to Betty Lum. Philo 
C'jmpleted the bouse and occupied it 
nearly fifty years, while he followed 
his trade as carpenter, wheelwright and 
bridge onilder working on Bennett's 
bridge, Zoar bridge, the big dam at 
Derby, and elsewhere. 



While living in the house two children 
were born, Betsey M., who died at the 
age of Mght years, and Henry J., now 
living in Anoonia. 

Later occupants of the house were 
Wm. E. Curtiss, now in the blacksmith 
business in Ansonia, and George Bassett, 
who moved to Ansonia and died there 
several years ago. 

Rev. Wm H. Stebbins occupied the 
house as a parsonage while in charge of 
the churches at Riverside and East 
Village in 1863 and 1864. 



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OXFORD. 





THE DR. DUTTON PLACE. 

The old Doctor Button house, built by Doctor Hosea Dutton 
in the year 1800, on a little rise of ground o\'erlooking Oxford 
Center, forty rods west from St. Peter's church. It was afterward 
occupied by his son. Doctor Thomas A. Dutton, and later was 
owned and occupied by Rev. Charles Smith, rector of St. Peter's 
church. Since 1840 it has been known as the Doctor Lounsbury 
place. Dr. Lounsbury died in 1895. The house has since been 
owned and occupied by his only daughter, Miss Emma Lounsbury. 



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THK LITTLK KIVKW F^^LLS. 



"THE LITTLE RIVER." 

By Rev. L. F. Morris. 



Among the hills and the woodlands wild, 

Arises our little river, 
'Tis unknown to fame. 
And it has no name; 

It is simply "The Little River." 
And yet mighty streams that surge and roll. 

Their way through the world a winning. 
And make a great show. 
And noise as they go. 

Have just as small a beginning. 
Tis so with men who make much display. 

And pride themselves on their station, 
With small men on earth 
They had the same birth. 

The same little, common creation. 
This rivulet flows in sun and shade. 

O'er meads and through tangled wildwood; 
'Tis like a man's life. 
With vicissitudes rife. 

Since the days of his early childhood. 
Here straight, there crooked, here swift, there 

Here troubled, there calm in places, [slow. 
It runs its way down 
Through our sleepy town. 

And never its way back retraces. 
And pools as quiet retreats it has. 

Where waters seem restful sleeping. 
So life here and there 
Has rest from all care 

For him who the right course is keeping. 
And here its waters are shrunk and scant. 

And there it has broad expanses; 
So the life we live 



Doth vant and wealth give 

With unending changes and chances. 
'Gainst great impediments barring its way. 

Its waters ever working. 
Are wholesome and clear. 
No diseases appear 

In them, as in idle pools lurking. 
And so to him who is e'er at work 

And e er 'gainst obstacles going. 
Some great, priceless health. 
Some .ioy and some wealth. 

Are ever their comforts bestowing. 
The troubled rifts the winds would make 

On its surface, this stream pursuing. 
The water's strong flow 
Keep down as they go. 

So it heeds not the storms a brewing. 
So the stoims of life are unheeded by him 

Who works with zeal untiring; 
He keeps down its woes. 
As active he goes 

And to better things is aspiring. 

It may be this stream mid great rivers' fame 

Has never a place or portion. 
But its waters run free 
With theirs to the sea 

And together they're lost in the ocean. 
One life may be great, and one may be small. 

Unknown like this little river. 
Yet both end at last. 
When their time is past. 

In the infinite sea of their giver. 
Oxford, June 30th, 1890. 



14^ OXFORD. 

A REVERY. 

(The house referred to was on the east side of the road a few rods south 
of the Seth Dea Bridge. It was destroyed by Are many years aj^o.) 



In fancy oft I wander to my dear New England home. 

The home I knew in childhood, long ago. 
It was sheltered in the valley and it clambered up the hill. 

'Tis the dearest spot that ever I stiall know. 

I see the old house standing wich one foot upon the hill. 

While the other stood upon the level ground. 
The house my grandsire's sire built, and staunch and firm it stood. 

Its oaken beams and timbers strong and sound. 

I hear the children laughing as we play about the home. 

I hear my mother calling from the door. 
I see my father driving up the oxen through the lane, 

The ox cart filled with app'es, brimming o'er. 

I see the cows a-comlng through the let down pasture bars, 

I hear the tin-tin-tinkle of their bells. 
And once again I'm driving them up home at milking time, 

I hear the milk a-pounding in the pails. 

I walk beneath the maple trees that cast such grateful shade. 

Their braaches intertwined across the street, 
I hear the sap a-dripping from the hollowed eider spout, 

I taste the maple sugar pure and sweet. 

And oh I smell the fragrance of the lilacs in the yard. 

Their purple clusters bending with the dew, 
The flow'ring almond blossoms clustered by the orchard fence, 

Th:ir fragrance borne on every b'eeze that blew. 

I hear the river rushing and a- roaring in the sprins. 

When the icy chains of winter break away, 
I hear it softly murmuring its ripples o'er the stones. 

In summer, where we children loved to play. 

And there's the tangled grapevine where the luscious bunches grew 

The ripest just above our childish reach. 
The blackberries, the huckleberries, and the sweetest strawberries too, 

The orchard with the apple, quince and peach. 

I wander through the pasture, through the lane up to the oak. 

Whose branches cast a shade far and wide. 
And there's my father's trout pond and the bridge that crossed the stream. 

Where the speckled finny fellows used to hide. 

I clamber o'er the bars into my father's chestnut grove 

Where the purest, coolest spring I ever knew. 
Came bubbling from the mossy rocks just underneath the oak, 

I smell the fragrant mint that round it grew. 

I hear my mother singing to soothe our childish woes 

"Are there tidings," "Highland Laddie," and the rest. 
What hallowed memories cluster all about that dear old home. 

The spot, of all on earth, I love the best. 

Oh many, many years have passed, but ne'er forgot'will be 

The place where, as a child, I loved to roam. 
No spot on earth can ever be one half so dear to me 

As my childhood's dear old happy Oxford home. 

Helen Bassett Johnstone. 
San Francisco, California. 



OXFORD. 



149 



TAXPAYERS OF OXFORD IN 1802. 

An old and faded manuscript, attested by H. Button, "Town 
Clerk, &c.," as a true copy of the taxable lists of the town of Ox- 
ford for 1802, containing 83 names, furnishes the list given below. 
The rate was two mills on the dollar. The highest on the list was 
David Tomlinson, Esq., who paid a tax of $6.49. The next in 
amount of taxes w^ere Capt. Hawkins, John Towner, David Mc- 
Cune, E. Fairchild, Aurelius and Joseph Hyde, Elijah Durand, 
Wait Garrett and Truman Bassett. Joel Perry was the collector. 



Ephraim Andrews. 
John Bellamy. 
Joel Buckingham. 
Isaac Bunnel. 
Wm. Bunnel. 
Luke Bunnel. 
Truman Bunnel. 
Cother Beardsley. 
Jared Beardsley. 
Lemuel Beardsley. 
Clark Beardsley. 
Truman Bassett. 
Moses Cande. 
Cyrus Cande. 
Daniel Cande. 
Levi Cande. 
Isaac Chatfield. 
Benajah Chatfield. 
Susanna Cornish. 
Elijah Durand. 
Nehemiah Durand. 
Joseph Durand. 
Geo. Cables, heirs of 
Isaac Cable. 
Stephen Curtiss. 
Ebenezer Fairchild. 
Lois Fairchild. 
Polly Fairchild. 



Wait Garrett. 
Salmon GriflBn. 
Peleg Griffin. 
Capt. Z. Hawkins, 
Isaac Hawkins. 
Capt. Asahel Hyde. 
Joseph Hyde. 
Daniel Hyde. 
Aurelius Hyde. 
Joseph Hubbel. 
Hiram Johnson. 
Jeremiah Johnson. 
Abner Johnson. 
Eleazer Lewis. 
Eleazer Lewis, Jr. 
Wm. Lewis. 
Ethel Lounsbury. 
David McCune. 
David Mallory. 
Isaiah Mallory. 
Naboth Osborn. 
Samuel Osborn. 
Sarah Osborn. 
Elizabeth Osborn. 
Gideon Perry. 
James Perry. 
James Perry, Jr. 
Josiah Perry. 



Joel Perry. 

Peter Perry. 

Roger Perkins. 

David Perkins. 

James Pangman. 

Capt. Nath'l Pangman. 

David Smith, 3d. Good Hill- 

David Smith, 4th, Punkups. 

John Smith. 

Wm. Smith. 

Isaac Smith. 

David Tomlinson, Esq. 

Zalmon Tomlinson. 

Caleb Tomlinson. 

Nathan Tomlinson. 

Josiah Tucker. 

Twichel & Merwin. 

John Towner. 

Rachel Towner. 

Simeon Towner. 

Philo Thomas 

Francis Tomkins. 

Elijah Treat. 

James Wheeler. 

James Wheeler, 2d. 

James Wheeler, 3d. 

Moses Wheeler. 



1 50 OXFORD. 



OXFORD IN 1819. 

The following sketch of Oxford as it was in 1819 is from the 
Gazetteer of Connecticut published in that year: 

"Oxford is a post township, situated in the northwestern section 
of the couty, 14 miles northwesterly from New Haven, and 40 
southwesterly from Hartford; bounded on the north by Middlebury 
and Waterbury, on the east by Woodbridge and Derby, on the 
south by Derby, and on the southwest by the Ousatonic river, 
which separates it from Newtown, in Fairfield county, and on the 
west by Southbury. Its mean length from northeast to southwest 
is about 8 miles, and its mean breadth nearly 5 miles, comprising 
about 38 square miles. 

The surface is uneven, being diversified with hill and dale. The 
prevailing soil is a gravelly loam; but in the western section of the 
town it is a calcareous loam, and is generally fertile and productive. 
There is a large proportion of forests, the timber of which is princi- 
pally oak, walnut and chestnut. Considerable quantities of wood 
and timber are annually got to market, principally to New Haven; 
but some of which is sent to New York. The leading agricultural 
productions consist of wheat, rye, and some other grains, grass, 
butter and cheese; small meats, fowls, esculent roots and culinery 
vegetables are sent to New Haven market. 

"The town is well watered; the Ousatonic washes its south- 
western border, and the Naugatuck runs through its northeastern 
section, in addition to which there are numerous small streams. 
Upon the Ousatonic there are several shad fisheries. The Wood- 
bury turnpike, leading to New Haven, passes through this town; 
and also the Southbury turnpike leading to the same place, from up 
the Ousatonic river. 

"Of the mechanical employments and establishments in the 
town, the most important are, i Woolen Factory, 3 or 4 Limekilns, 
I large Hat Factory, 2 Fulling Mills and Clothiers' works, 3 Carding 



EAKLV INDUSTRIES. I5I 

Machines for customers. 3 Grain Mills and 6 Tanneries. There are 
3 Mercaniile Stores and i Public Inn. 

"The population of the town, in 1810, was 1,445; ^"'^ there are 
about 200 Electors or Freemen, about 220 Dwellin<j Houses, and i 
Company of Militia. 

"The amount of taxable property, including- polls, as rated in 
the making up of lists in 1816, was $35,020. 

"The town contains i located Ecclesiastical Congregational So- 
ciety and 13 School Districts; besides the located, there are 2 Epis- 
copal Societies, and a Society of Methodists. There is a primary 
or common School maintained in each of the School Districts, for 
a suitable portion of the year. There is i Social Library, i Clergy- 
man, I Physician and i Attorney in the town. 



THE EARLY MANIFACTURIING INDUSTRIES. 

The spinning wheel and the hand looms on which were wo\en 
both woolen and linen fabrics for clothing and household use, weie 
supplemented by carding mills where waterpower was utilized in 
carding the wool, which was then returned to the homes to be spun 
and woven or knit into stockings, mittens, etc. The liax was hatch- 
elled on sharp, slim spikes set in a piece of oak plank, over which 
the flax was drawn to free it from the integument with which nature 
had covered it. 

Until 1788 all spinning and weaving of woolen and cotton in 
this country was by hand. Some progress has been made in Eng- 
land in spinning by other than hand power, but that country exer- 
cised jealous watchfulness over the industries and statutes were 
enacted there prohibiting the exportation of "any machine, engine, 
tool, press, utensil or implement whatever, " or models or plans of 
any appliance for the manufacture of cotton, wool or silk, under a 
penalty of forfeiture of such device, a hne of ^200, and imprison- 
ment for twelve months. B,ut notwithstanding the vigilance of the 
mother country, Yankee ingenuity triumphed in this as well as in 
other directions, and models of machinery for the purposes referred 
to were smuggled into this country. The legislature of Massachu- 
setts offered special inducements to inventors of machinery for the 
manufacture of textiles. Somewhere about 1788 what was called 
a cottoninill was put up at Beverly, Mass., which is said to have 
been the first factory in America, and yet the spinning mechanism 



152 OXFORD. 

consisted only of four jennies operated by horsepower, and the jen- 
nies were little more than the union of a number of spindles in the 
the same machine after the manner of the one thread wheel by 
hand. A benfinning had, however, been made, and within a year a 
spinning frame was constructed in Providence, R. I., and Moses 
Brown and his brothers "did a small business at manufacturing on 
lathes and jennies driven by men." 

Soon similar enterprises were begun in this state, each with 
some slight mechanical improvement, and it was not long before 
looms were run by water power for the manufacture of woolen 
cloths. The importation of Merino sheep from Spain by General 
Humphreys in 1802, gave a great impetus to the "infant industry" 
of woolen manufacture. He made his headquarters at "the falls 
of the Naugatuck" and named the village Humphreysville, building 
a large woolen factory, in which the business was learned by young 
men, some of whom afterward established mills of their own. nota- 
bly Samuel Wire, who located on the Little River, in the south 
part of the town of Oxford. On November 7, 1814, he purchased 
from John W. Wooster half of a factory, house, barn, dam and 
waterworks, the factory being mentioned in the town records as a 
'clothier's shop and fulling mill," from which it appears that some- 
thing in this line had already been established there. In 1819 his 
list of taxable property was — "i clothier's shop valued at $300, i 
dwelling house and barn and iVz acres of land, $4.00," etc. 

Capt. Wire carried on the business there for about thirty years. 
The wool from sheep on the surrounding farms was brought to the 
mill to be carded and spun. Many paid for these two processes 
and then took the yarn home to knit into stockings and mittens, 
etc., or to be woven on hand looms. Much cloth was, however, 
manufactured at the mill, principally satinet, which was generally 
shipped to commission merchants in New York, but was also re- 
tailed to the people in the vicinity of the mill. 

In 1846 the property passed into the hands of Hiram Osborn 
and Clark Wooster, and Capt. Wire removed to Bridgeport, and 
later to New Haven, where he was appointed city Sheriff, which 
office he held until nearly the time of his death, which occurred 
May 3, 1874, at the age of 86. 

The mill afterward passed into the hands of James Ormsby, who 
manufactured woolen yarn for some years, after which the mill 
went to decay. 



EARLY INDUSTRIES. I 53 

Another clothier's shop, later a woolen mill, was established in 
the north part of the villa^je of Quaker Farms, where a dam was 
built across the Eight Mile Brook, to furnish the needed water 
power. Isaac Rowe, Sr., had come from Brattleboro, Vt., with 
Gen. Humphreys to work in the woolen mill at Humphreysville, 
and Feb. 6, 1824, his twin sons, Isaac, Jr., and Frederick, pur- 
chased the mill at Quaker Farms from the estate of Squire David 
Tomlinson. The property was described in the deed as "a woolen 
factory situated in Quaker's Farm, on ye eight mile brook, so called, 
about an hundred rods northerly from ye Chapel with all ye ma- 
chinery and implements belonging thereto, with all ye water privi- 
leges heretofore claimed as belonging to sd factory, also a dye shop 
with ye kettles and implements thereunto belonging, also a small 
dwelling house standing near said factory, with ye land on which 
sd buildings stand." 

A few years later Isaac sold out to Frederick and went to Mich- 
igan and selected a location where he proposed to build a mill, and 
then started on the return trip, but the vessel on which he was 
crossing lake St. Clair was wrecked and he was drowned. 

In 1831 Frederick Rowe sold the "woolen manufactory and 
dwelling house, with the water privilege and land," to Ira Sherman 
and Horace Candee, the specifications in the deed showing what 
progress had been made in the machinery used in the manufacture 
of woolens, as "a patent shearing machine, spinning jinny, gigg 
mill for napping cloth, i broad loom, set press papers, roll of filleting 
cards, clothiers' brushes, 4 shutters, 1000 seazles or more." Phil- 
lippa Rowe is mentioned as one of those having a right in the mill. 

In 1833 Sherman and Candee sold the property to Benjamin 
Hawley of Cherryfield, Washington County, State of Maine, and 
Mary Burritt of Southbury. 

DeForest & Hine were for some years the proprietors of the 
mill, manufacturing satinet and employing about a dozen hands. 
DeForest (William) was from Naugatuck, and when he left the 
Farms went to New Haven. The factory was closed about 1850. 
The mill has long since disappeared, and of the dam, which held 
until some time after i860, only the ruins of the abutments remain. 
The writer remembers skating on the pond with the schoolboys in 
the winter of 1858-59, when he taught the Quaker Farms school. 
The conical nests of the muskrats, rising two or three feet above the 
surface of the pond, made convenient seats for the skaters while 



1 54 OXFORD. 

adjusting their skates, when it was true that 

"The fires stream bright 
Along the frozen river, 
And the arrowy sparkles of brilliant light 
On the forest branches quiver." 

At this Quaker Farms mill broadcloth was manufactured as 
early as 1824, and for many years thereafter. 

Yet another woolen mill, also on the Eight Mile Brook, but only 
a short distance from where it empties into the Housatonic, was 
built early in the nineteenth century. In the records is an indica- 
tion that some kind of a foundry had existed there at an earlier date. 
This was in the neighborhood then called Punkups. 

James Dawson, in company with a man by the name of Lees, 
father of Robert Lees, began business there about 1825, and man- 
ufactured broadcloth and cassimeres, Dawson was born in York- 
shire. England, in 1800, and was therefore about 25 when he began 
business at Punkups. Some years later he sold out to Ira Bradley 
and William Guthrie of Southbury. who sold the property to James 
and Samuel Radcliffe of Bristol, Hartford county, July i, 1853. 
The property was described as follows : 

' The following parcels or tracts of land situated near the Ousa- 
tonic river in the region called Punkups in the town of Oxford. 
One tract, the Homestead of James Dawson, and contains seven- 
teen acres, more or less, with the buildings, viz.: two dwelling 
houses and outbuildings, a woolen mill, machinery and fixtures ap- 
pendant thereto, and is bounded Northerly by land of Sheldon 
Wooster, Easterly by highway. Southerly by land of Simeon Hin- 
man and John B. Hinman, and Westerly by land called Frederick 
H. Chatfield's, now Simeon Hinman's. or John B. Hinman's. 
Another tract lying across the highway. Easterly from and opposite 
to that above described, contains one acre more or less, a barn 
standing thereon, and is bounded Northerly by land of Polly Tom- 
linson, Easterly and Westerly by Highway, and Southerly by 
Robert Lees. A third tract lying Northerly from the last and con- 
tains twentytwo acres, more or less, and is bounded Northerly by 
land of Polly Tomlinson, Easterly by Simeon Hinman, Southerly 
by land of Polly Tomlinson, and Westerly, by land of Polly Tom- 
linson and Eight mile brook, extending so as to embrace all the 
interest the said James Dawson had at the time of his assignment 
in the land and privilege called old Forge place." 

A mortgage deed given by Dawson in 185 1 gives some details of 
the machinery in the mill which is of interest as showing of what 



EARLY INDUSTRIES. 155 

the plant of a woolen mill consisted in those days. The machinery 
specifications were as follows : "four carding machines, three broad 
power looms, a spinning jack, two shearing machines, a gig, a 
brushing machine, two frames for twisting and spooling stocking 
yarn, and sundry articles not herein enumerated." 

Another manufacturing industry which flourished in Quaker 
Farms for some twenty years was the manufacture of metal screws 
which was carried on by H. E. Bidwell in a mill on Eight Mile 
Brook about a mile south of the Quaker Farms woolen mill. He 
came from Amherst, Mass., and bought the mill and fitted it up for 
making small screws which he sold to hardware dealers throughout 
this state and to some in Massachusetts and New York state, also 
"auger screws" to manufacturers of augers in Seymour and West- 
ville, and shear screws to manufacturers of shears in South Britain 
and Naugatuck, He also ran a sawmill in connection with the 
screw mill. 

At Red City, fiftyfive years ago, David Scott manufactured 
daguereotype and ambrotype cases, giving employment to quite a 
number of young people. A little later William Tucker had a shop 
there in which he made wagon wheels, horserakes, etc. 

There were sawmills on Little River, Eight Mile Brook, the 
south branch of the Kettletown Brook, and the brook on the east 
side of Chestnut Tree Hill which empties into the Naugatuck river 
at Pinesbridge. 

Little River, though ordinarily a small stream, has in its brief 
length of a few miles furnished power for a surprising number and 
variety of industries. The one nearest its source was a shop for 
the manufacture of hay rakes, built and run some seventy years 
ago by Isaac Towner who lived on the main road where Charles 
Beck now lives. From there the stream flows through a compara- 
tively level valley with but little fall to be available for water power 
until Red City is passed. Just below where a road branches from 
the old turnpike and turns westward over the hill to Quaker Farms, 
there has been a sawmill from time immemorial. The next millsite 
is just below the Center, where remain the abutments of a dam 
and the walls on which once stood a sawmill which was long owned 
and run by Joel Perry. 

Next below a Mr. French had a gristmill, owned later by Eli 
Carley, then by S. P. Sanford, and now by Llewellyn Andrew. 
A cidermill and distillery was also run in connection with it, in the 



156 OXFORD. 

fall season, but the distillery part of the business has long ago been 
abandoned. A little below Norman A. Bidwell hall a carding mill, 
which was occupied later as a tannery, first by Cyrus Fenn, and 
then by Anthony B. Hinman, the water power being utilized in 
grinding the tan bark. 

The next dam and pond below furnished power for a sawmill 
built in 1852 by Sheldon Church, who owned nearly a square mile 
of land on which was sufficient timber to keep the mill supplied 
during the season of available waterpower without using more than 
the annual growth of the trees would amount to. 

The next below was a turning shop, both the shop and dam 
having been built about 1870, for the manufacture of croquet sets. 
The next was the Samuel Wire (or Weir) mill, and next and last 
on the Little River, within the limits of the town of Oxford, is the 
Wooster sawmill and gristmill, owned by William and Sheldon 
Church, and yet later by Mark Lounsbury, by whom it was leased 
to Edward L. Hoadley. The gristmill was discontinued years ago, 
but the sawmill is still managed by Mr. Hoadley, who does a large 
business in timber. This made at one time eight dams with shops 
or mills on this stream within the Oxford town lines, there being 
three on the stream below the town line before it empties into the 
Naugatuck river. 

There was also a cider distillery on the southerly slope of Rock 
House Hill, near what is now known as Orchard street. 

The manufacture of hats was a leading industry of the town 
for nearly fifty years. This was carried on in shops at the center, 
a few rods north of the hotel, and many men were profitably em- 
ployed, the hats being sold to dealers in neighboring cities and to 
wholesalers in New York City. 

About 1830, and for some time thereafter, Seth Crosby was the 
proprietor, said to have employed at one time about seventyfive 
men. Four partners succeeded him, Garry Riggs, George Fuller, 
Charles Ranson and Agur Cable. Henry Dunham followed, 
keeping a general store in addition to managing the hat business, 
and usually found a ready sale in New York City for all the hats 
the men could make, or rather what they would make, for the 
hatters were a very jolly, independent sort of men, and although 
they mostly worked "by the piece," and the more hats they made 
the bigger their pay, they had a sort of "chapel" arrangement and 
what the "chapel" ordered was, to a great extent, the law of the 



EARLY INDUSTRIES. 157 

shop. At one time the leader of the "chapel" told Mr. Dunham 
they would turn out a much greater number of hats if he would get 
orders for them. Mr. Dunham went to New York and obtained 
large orders for a certain line of hats, and on his return told the 
foreman of his success and that the men could make all the hats 
they pleased. The foreman called the men together and told them 
the good news, but to his surprise two or three men objected and 
after some debate they carried the day and the hatters decided they 
would make no more hats than before. The result was that Mr. 
Dunham had to cancel a part of his orders. 

Clothing was at one time made here for the southern trade, 
David M. Clark having a tailor shop in the long one-story ell in the 
rear of his house, the first above where the present schoolhouse 
stands, and had quite a number of men in his employ. 

The making of casks and kegs for the West India trade was a 
flourishing industry here for many years. The first in that line of 
business here of whom mention is found was John Limburner, who 
came here from New Haven about 1797, and carried on the business 
here until 1829, when he removed to Derby. Several cooperages 
were located along the turnpike between Oxford center and South- 
ford, one having been where S. E. Hubbell now lives and one at 
the Frazier place on the hill north of Red City. Others who 
were engaged in this business were Willis Smith, William Morris 
and Harvey Morris, who died in 1859, aged 73. 

There were about the middle of last century many shoe shops 
in the town, where shoes were made for city and southern trade. 
There was one near the south end of Riggs street, several on the 
turnpike between the center and Southford. and one at least at 
Quaker Farms, the latter belonging to Horace Hinman, who was 
in the business there until late in the '6o's. 

The Oxford turnpike was chartered in 1795, and was for half a 
century one of the principal thoroughfares of the state, being on a 
through line from New Haven to Southbury, Woodbury and towns 
beyond, and the route of a stage line and regular freight teams 
as well as for farmers who carried their own produce to the city 
market or to towns in the Naugatuck valley. The toll house was 
established on the east bank of the Little River, about a quarter 
of a mile below Oxford center. 



158 



OXFORD. 




BALANCED ROCK, FIVE MILE HILL. 

A BBLIG OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 



EARLY INDUSTRIES. 



159 




OXFORD CENTER IN 1838. 



The above illustration is from J. W. Barber's "Historical Col- 
lections," published in 1838, in which he says: 

"Oxford was incorporated as a town in October, 1798, pre- 
viously to which time it belonged to the town of Derby. The Rev. 
Jonathan Lyman appears to have been the first clergyman in the 
place. He was ordained in October, 1745. It is fourteen miles 
northwest from New Haven, and forty southwest from Hartford; 
bounded north by Middlebury and Waterbury, on the southwest 
by the Housatonic, separating it from Newtown, on the west by 
Southbury, on the east by Bethany, and on the south by Derby. 
Its length from northeast to southwest is about eight miles, and 
its breadth nearly five. The surface of the township is uneven, 
being diversified with hills and valleys. The prevailing soil is 
generally loam; the eastern and western parts of the town are 
generally fertile and productive. The central part, through which 
the main road passes, is considered to be the poorest land in the 
town. There are in the town three satinet factories, and an ex- 
tensive hat manufactory, owned by Messrs. Hunt & Crosby. A 
number of extensive manufacturing establishments are about being 
erected on the Naugatuck. 



l60 OXFORD. 

"The above engraving is a southeastern view of the central 
part of Oxford. The building with a Gothic tower is the Episcopal 
Church; part of the Congregational Church is seen on the extreme 
right. The elevation seen in the background is called 'Governor's 
Hill,' so named, it is said, from its being principally owned, many 
years since, by a Mr. Bunnel, who was considered by his neighbors 
as a lordly kind of a personage, and had considerable to do with 
the law, being engaged in man}^ law-suits for the support of his real 
or imaginary rights. From the important and consequential airs 
he assumed among his neighbors, he probably received the designa- 
tion of 'Governor.' 

"Quaker Farms is a pleasant part of Oxford. It contains an 
Episcopal Church, which is about two miles from the center of the 
town. About one mile and a half south from the center is the 
'Park,' formerly a place for deer. About eighty or ninety years 
since, a Mr. Wooster owned and enclosed about one hundred acres 
of land for the purpose of keeping deer. It is said that he had the 
exclusive privilege by law of restraining any person from hunting 
deer in the limits of 'the Park.' Upon the outside of part of the 
enclosure there was a kind of a precipice, from which the deer, 
when pursued, would sometimes leap into the enclosure, much to 
the mortification and disappointment of unprivileged hunters. 

"About one mile south of the central part of the town is a 
remarkable mineral spring; called "the Pool" from the circumstance 
of the waters being efficacious, and much used for the cure of the 
salt rheum and other complaints. Once in a month a yellowish 
scum will collect upon the surface of the water, which in a few days 
will run off, and leave the pool perfectly clear. In the coldest 
weather this spring never freezes; in the driest season it is as full 
as at other times." 



HISTORY 



OF 




PART FIRST, 

CHURCH RECORDS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS. ETC. 



BY W. C. SHARPE. 



AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF SEYMOUR, Etc. 



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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF OXFORD, 

Read at the Centennial Celebration, July 4th. 1876. 

By N. J. WiLCoxsoN. 



Oxford was for the most part embraced in the survey and lay 
out of the ancient town of Milford. A section in the northerly part 
was orifjinally of the ancient town of Woodbury, and the north- 
easterly section, to no great extent, however, was taken from the 
town of Waterbury — Waterbury Old Societ3^ as then styled. The 
territory consisted of two purchases — the Western, called Quaker 
Farms purchase, the Eastern, the North purchase. The two pur- 
chases were separated by the stream bisecting the town named 
Little River. Oxford, as a separate communit}^ as is shown per 
record, began with the incorporation of the Ecclesiastical Society 
of Oxford, the Society now known as the Congregational Society. 
This was done b}' Act of General Assembly of the Colony of Con- 
necticut, holden at Hartford, May, 1740, and must have been done 
very soon after the territory comprising the town was generall}' 
settled. The petitioners for a parish incorporation were Timothy 
Noster. John Twitchell, John Towner, and others, dwelling in the 
north and northwest part of the township of Derby; John, Jonas 
and Joseph Wood, Thos. and Joseph Osbom, dwelling in the South- 
west part of Waterbury Woods, in the old Society of Waterbury; 
Isaac Kowles, Joseph Towner, Eliphalet Bristol, John Tifts and 
Aaron Bristol, dwelling in the southeast part of the township of 
Woodbury, in Woodbur}' Woods, so called, in the parish of South- 
bury. The names of these petitioners are nearly extinct. Two, of 
the name of Towner, Joseph and Albert B., descendants of John 
Towner; Orlando C. Osborn, great-great-grandson to Capt. Joseph 
Osborn, and Thomas S. Osborn, great-great-grandson to Deacon 
Thomas Osborn. Thomas and Joseph Osborn were brothers. 



l62 OXFORD. 

Besides these no other names of the petitioners can be found within 
the present limit of the town. Geo. A. Twitchell, and Lucius S. 
Osborn, great-grandson to Deacon Thomas Osborn, reside at Bea- 
con Falls. I do not know of any other descendant anywhere in 
this vicinity. We may look upon this circumstance and be hereby 
admonished of the work of time — in the removal and supply of 
population. 

The members of the parish, (or Society of Oxford, as they 
termed themselves,) for the first time met and organized on the 
30th of June, 1741. On the 6th day of October, 1741, in meeting 
lawfully warned, it was voted, "by a two-thirds part of the inhabi- 
tants by law qualified to vote and present in meeting, to build a 
meeting house, and to meet the assembly in their next session at 
New Haven, to pray for a commission to appoint, order and fix the 
place whereon their meeting house shall be erected and built." 

Mr. Ebenezer Riggs (as I understand, great-grandfather to our 
fellow-townsman of that name,) was appointed agent to the Gen- 
eral Assembly, to manage the obtaining of such committee. Who 
that committee was or were, when, where and why they decided 
on setting their stake for a site for the house to be built, does not 
appear on Society or Parish records. 

Society or parish meetings were held at private houses, passing 
round from one to another of the members until the 31st day of 
March, 1743. The meeting next after that was held at the meeting 
house on the 21st of June, 1743. Next of importance to the build- 
ing of the meeting house was a step taken towards the settlement 
of a gospel minister. Mr. Joseph Adams was called to such settle- 
ment with a proffer of a settlement of ;^500, and a yearly salary of 
;^I50 old tenor. The call was not accepted. At another parish 
meeting held on the first Monday of June, 1745, it was voted to give 
the worthy Mr. Jonathan Lyman a call to preach on probation. A 
committee consisting of Capt. Timothy Russell, Capt. John Lum 
and Ensign John Chatfield, were appointed to hire Mr. Jonathan 
Lyman upon probation, for the space of four Sabbaths. At the 
end of the set four weeks, at a meeting held on the first Monday of 
July, 1745, it was voted to give the worthy Mr. Jonathan Lyman 
a call to settle over the parish in the work of the gospel ministry. 

A settlement of ;^500, in the old tenor, was voted to be paid in 
four years, (;^I25 yearly,) and a salary of ;^I25 yearly till the 
settlement was paid. The salary then to advance to ;^i50 yearly. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 163 

Subsequently it was voted to add ;^io yearly to the salary for five 
years. 




CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 

Mr. Lyman was ordained to the work of the ministry over the 
parish on the fourth Wednesday of October, 1745, and continued 
as such minister 18 years, when, as he was riding in the westerly 
part of the town, on a visit to a sick person, he fell from his horse, 
and, as supposed, instantly died. No special mention is made of 
his ministry. That he was continued so long is testimony in favor 
of his success. Our fellow-townsman, Hon. Benj. Nichols, is great- 
grandson to him. 



l64 OXFORD. 

Next to Mr. Lyman as minister of the parish, the Rev. David 
Bronson, of Milford. was called to the work of the ministry. The 
call is dated Monday, March 3d. 1764. Proffered is a settlement of 
;^200, and a salary of £60, to be increased to £^0 after four years. 
Deacon Ebenezer Rig^s, Mr. John Twitchell, Mr. Thomas Clark, 
Capt. Russell, Capt. Hawkins, Lieut. Wheeler, Joseph Osborn, 
were the committee for treating with the worthy Mr. David Bron- 
son regarding his settlement. The 25th day of April, 1764, was 
appointed for the ordination. Mr. Bronson lived and served the 
parish as gospel minister till the year 1806, a period of forty years, 
when he died full of years. The next settled minister of the parish 
was the Rev. Nathaniel Freeman. His continuance was from June, 
1809, to September, 1814. The Society was without a settled 
minister from September, 1814, to the settlement of Rev. Abraham 
Brown, June 2d, 1830. During these 16 years of vacancy, the 
people were variously supplied with preaching, principally by the 
Rev. Ephraim G. Swift, a man of much personal worth and highly 
respected. Mr. Brown was dismissed October 16, 1838. A call for 
a settlement over the parish as pastor was extended to Rev. Stephen 
Topliff, on the 21st day of April, 1841, on a salary of $500 annually 
so long as he continued with the church and society as minister. 
Mr. Topliff accepted the call and was installed the following Sep- 
tember, and remained for twenty years. He was a man esteemed 
for his integrity, for his faithfulness in the discharge of his pro- 
fessional duty, his kindness as neighbor, and the wisdom of his 
actions as a citizen. 

It is doubtless within the memory of most of you composing 
this gathering, that after Mr. Topliff the pulpit was supplied by 
Rev. Mr. Barton one year. Mr. Strong was installed and continued 
two and a half years. Rev. Mr. Chamberlain was hired from year 
to year two and a half years, and since that the church and society 
have been supplied seven years by Rev. John Churchill of Wood- 
bury. It may be remarked of Mr. Churchill, that faithful to his 
calling as a preacher he deservedly ranks with the ablest, as a friend 
the kindest, as a neighbor unselfishly loving, and as a citizen 
discreet, just and true. 

Not long before the close of the year 1792, the people began 
to talk of building a new meeting house, and on the third day of 
January, 1793, in meeting legally warned, voted so to build on the 
meeting house acre, near the old one, a house 56 feet by 40. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 165 

Thomas Clark, Esq., Capt. John Riggs and Mr. Josiah Strong, 
were appointed a committee to apply to the Hon. County Court to 
establish a place for a site for the same. 

It was in meeting on the 23d day of December, 1793, that Mr. 
Timothy Candee was appointed to build the meeting house, the 
same vote agreeing to give him therefor the sum of six hundred 
and seventyfive pounds, about $2,253.75. It was told me that the 
stipulated sum did not pay to Mr. Candee the expenses of the 
building; to meet the expenses of the house so embarrassed him 
pecuniarily that he gave up what of estate he had and removed to 
Pompey, N. Y., where he lived out his time. The meeting house 
then built, which is the present Congregational Church, was raised 
in the year 1795, as entered on public record by Dr. Hosea Dutton. 
The same year the Oxford Turnpike, said to have been the second 
in the State, was chartered. 

The same year the hotel building, now styled "Oxford House," 
was erected by Daniel and Job Candee. The same was first and 
for many years occupied by Daniel Candee as inn holder. He was 
succeeded by his nephew, David Candee, who continued in the 
position a space of forty years. 

The first postoffice was kept in that building. Daniel Candee, 
postmaster. David Candee, upon taking the position of landlord, 
took also that of postmaster, which he held for a great number of 
years, and then passed to his son, George N. Candee, by whom it 
was taken into a merchant store. 

I am not able to detail so particularly of the Episcopal parish 
of St. Peters, as I am of the Congregational, not having had access 
to the parish records. This parish was gathered together and in- 
stalled by the labors of Rev. Dr. Richard Mansfield, a missionary 
of the Church of England, who was located at Derby as a minister 
of the gospel, where he lived to a very great age and to the end of 
his life. As I have heard him spoken of, he was an exemplary man 
as a christian, neighbor and citizen, and regarded with veneration 
by all. The date of the beginning of the parish as I am told by the 
clerk is 1764. I cannot tell who was the immediate successor to 
Dr. Mansfield, as gospel minister. Rev. Mr. Prindle, a native born 
citizen of Oxford, a graduate from Yale College, after a twelve 
years' ministerial service at Watertown. was pastor at St. Peters 
for several years. Mr. Prindle was justly noted for sound and 
forcible intellect, for stern integrity, and as orthodox and firm in 



l66 OXFORD, 

principle. He was a useful minister. His last residence for many 
years was on a farm in the northerly' part of Oxford, where he died 
at a great age about the year 1832. 

After Mr. Prindle, Rev. Aaron Humphreys was pastor, but 
how long I do not certainly know; but it may be some ten years or 
more. I can give no particular account of Mr. Humphreys' life 
and ministerial service in Oxford, not being advised. Rev. W. A. 
Curtiss, a native of Coventry, in this State, came here in April, 1829, 
from New York. His pastorate continued little more than two 
years. He was a preacher of considerable ability, but such was his 
imprudence and indiscretion that he was ever upsetting his own 
dish. Rev, Ashbel Baldwin, Rev. Dr. Burhans, Revs. Messrs. Todd, 
Sanford, Marvin, Nichols, Eastman, Loop, Gray, Smith, Clark, 
Pierce, (for about ten years,) Anketel, Buck, were in turn in charge 
of the parish and church as Presbyter. The church edifice first 
erected stood on the hill westerly from the central street and ad- 
jacent to the cemetery. It was taken down and removed, and the 
edifice now standing on the Public Green was erected in the year 
1834. It was dedicated by Bishop Brownell in the year following. 
Rev. Charles Smith was then minister. 

To the year 1798, Oxford was part and parcel of the town of 
Derby. As any matter of historical nature would be so much of 
Derby's history, we must consider Oxford people as a community 
in the parish capacity. About the year 1791, the people aspired to 
become a town. It was then they prefferred their petition to the 
General Assembly for incorporation as such. Year after year to 
the seventh, they presented their petition, when on the seventh 
they were successful, and Oxford was incorporated a town. Not in 
the least daunted for being six times repulsed, they persevered until 
victory crowned their efforts. Their indomitable determination, 
their energetic action, their unfaltermg perseverance, are to be 
regarded with admiring approbation. When speaking of this with 
one who was active in the cause. I said, "How long were you in 
gaining success by prevailing with your petition.''" He said, "Seven 
years; just as long as it took our country to gain her independence." 

I must not omit to say, the people at last resorted to strategy, 
and by strategy they succeeded. The town election of the town of 
Derby was at hand. The town meeting was warned to be held at 
nine o'clock forenoon, but never opened till one o'clock afternoon. 
The people of Oxford agreed to go together in a body, and be on 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 167 

hand and ready to open the meeting of the town at nine o'clock 
a. m. It was carried out to the letter. The hour of meeting was 
set and known to every man who might vote. They all congregated 
and formed in procession on the main street of the central part, 
and ready at a given signal simultaneously to start. The signal 




ST. PETERS CHURCH. 



given, the procession moved. It was so much the custom then to 
open a town meeting with prayer, that proceedings without prayer 
were hardly regarded as legitimate. To save trouble from that 
direction, Rev. Wm. Bronson, minister here, was taken along to 



l68 OXFORD. 

offer the opening prayer. The signal for a move being given, the 
procession moved on; no time was lost. They reached the place of 
meeting; it was nine o'clock; they set about the business of the 
hour with a diligence that told what was meant. The Derby people 
were in consternation. They started out and ran their horses in 
every direction, calling on persons to hasten to the meeting. But 
before enough of the voters could be gotten there to outnumber 
the Oxford voters, Nathan Stiles, who resided where Dr. Thomas 
Stoddard now resides in the town of Seymour, was chosen Town 
Clerk, and the meeting had voted that town meetings should be 
holden one-half the time in Oxford. Derby no longer opposed the 
movement of Oxford to become a separate town, but turned over 
and aided in the matter. These facts were given me by Capt. 
David McEwen, a prominent citizen, one ever ready and active in 
public enterprise, a man of laudable character, a farmer by avoca- 
tion, and when in the prime of life was one of the most thorough, 
flourishing and successful operators. I am told he was marshal of 
the day and led the procession. In and by the act of incorporation, 
it was ordered that the first town meeting be held on the third 
Tuesday of November, 1798, that Thomas Clark, Esq., warned the 
meeting, and that John Riggs. Esq., served the meeting as modera- 
tor. It will at once be seen that the people then as a town com- 
munity were in a crude state, and without authority vested in 
themselves for town organization. The town meeting was held in 
accordance with the foregoing. One who was in attendance told 
me that snow fell heavier than we often know it to fall, yet the 
meeting was as fully attended as any town meeting he had known 
in this town. The public green of the central part is made up of 
what is called "Meeting-house acre land," given by a Mr. Chatfield, 
for a site for a meeting house, and of land thrown out by proprietors 
or owners along down on the easterly side till it ends upon the 
turnpike road. This constitutes what is called Upper Green. 
It was at the time agreed that anything of rubbish or whatever 
could encumber the ground so thrown out and left thereon, should, 
if left there lying thirty days, become forfeit to the owner. The 
lower green is proprietors' land and laid by the proprietors' com- 
mittee for a public common and a military parade ground. Esq. 
Charles Bunnell told what I am about to state. The committee 
came along as was expected, in their way above to lay out land. 
As they were passing, he, (Bunnell,) spoke with them of the land 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 1^9 

now constituting the Green, and requested them to lay out for 
pubhc use. They replied that they would consider the matter. 
As they returned he was stationed to hear their reply to his request. 
They said they so laid out the land as he requested. Charles Bun- 
nell was unselfish and public spirited, a worthy, respectable and 
respected citizen. In the confidence of the people — he was promi- 
nent in position. His residence was that of our late fellow-citizen, 
Harry Sutton. He died March, 1838, aged 80 years. The land 
was in a forbidding state, being a thickly grown bramble. The 
people turned out under the lead of a committee, three military 
officers of the day and time, to-wit: Capt. John Davis, (afterward 
Colonel,) Lieut. Samuel Andrew Buckingham, and Ensign Eben- 
ezer Fairchild. They cleared the land of rubbish, and brought it 
to its present desirable condition. This was done at a large expense 
of time and money. The whole public common, both upper and 
lower, were laid out and improved under the lead of the same com- 
mittee, as I was informed by Lieut. Buckingham, (afterward Cap- 
tain). This may be regarded a prominent instance of perseverance 
in public enterprise. 

Before the lay and building of the turnpike road, public travel 
was not as it now is, but passed over easterl}^ by the schoolhouse in 
the center, on to what we now call back street, and down. The 
dwelling house now occupied by Michael Flynn was the hotel kept 
by Mr. Gideon Tucker. 

Not the least interesting section of Oxford is Quaker Farms. 
I could wish I had more of historical fact of this section to narrate. 
It was the earliest part of the town settled. Next to Quaker Farms, 
a neighborhood in the northerly part of the town, bordering on 
what is now called Middlebury, once called Bristol Town, was 
settled in advance of the central part. Quaker Farms is a region 
of valuable land. It is not surprising it was early sought for. The 
first English inhabitant of Oxford, as I take from record, was Dr. 
Butler, a quaker and hunter, who for some years from the 3^ear 
1715, had a hermit residence. He lived about forty rods southerly 
from the old burying ground, northwest side of the brook, under 
the hill at the turn of the road. The locality must be the turn of 
the road easterly from the house once. the residence of the late 
Capt. Nathaniel Wooster, and the residence of the present Silas 
Hawkins. The first English person born in Oxford was Lieut. John 
Griffin, born in 1725, died 1821, aged 96 years. Lieut. Griffin was 



170 OXFORD. 

distinguished as a soldier in the French war, was lieutenant in the 
army — he spent his summers in campaign service, coming home for 
winter and returning to duty in the spring, for three consecutive 
campaigns, and at last a victor under Wolfe upon the plains of 
Abraham before Quebec. The facts of his soldier life were given 
me by his son-in-law, Wm. Morris. 

The first, second and third births in Oxford occurred at Quaker 
Farms. The third was Dr. Joseph Perry, of Woodbury. Perry 
was a prominent name with the first inhabitants of Quaker Farms; 
so also was Wooster, Hawkins, Hyde, Nichols, et. al. Perry, a 
name once numerous and respected, of which but one, Capt. H. A. 
Perry, is there to tell of the name that was. Capt. Zachariah 
Hawkins, a farmer; his house stood on the site of the Meigs dwell- 
ing house — a substantial man of sound judgment, and a valuable 
citizen. Silas and Charles Hawkins, his grandsons, and Lewis, 
John and Samuel Hawkins, his great-grandsons, represent the 
name. Of the Wooster name there were many. They were mostly 
farmers. Nathan, a son of Arthur Wooster, was a graduate from 
Yale College. He was educated with the intention of being a 
clergyman of the Church of England. He lived and died on his 
farm at Quaker Farms. Joseph Wooster, located on Good Hill, 
was an enterprising farmer. Sixteen was the number of his sons 
and daughters. Rev. Henry Wooster, minister of the Baptist 
Church at Deep River, was a son of Joseph Wooster, Jr., and was 
a man of culture, in popular standing, and well approved as a 
useful minister. He is deceased. 

Col. Wm. B. Wooster, of Birmingham, a popular politician 
and a well-known and influential lawyer, being well approved; a son 
of Russell Wooster, and was also a grandson of Joseph Wooster. 
He took an active and valorous part as a loyalist, contesting against 
the secessionists in the late civil war. Capt. Nathaniel Wooster 
was a noteworthy citizen, and by trade a blacksmith. He died at 
a great age, little short of 90 years. Capt. Ira Hyde, and Marcus, 
his son, represent the Hyde name. Hon. Benjamin Nichols alone 
represents the Nichols' name. Subsequently there was the name 
of Tomlinson, of which name, David Tomlinson was in his day a 
distinguished citizen. Mr. Tomlinson entered Quaker Farms an 
emigrant from Woodbur3% and that when young I should think, 
from information given me, at the age of 18 or 20. He was then 
placed in charge of land there owned by his father. His wife was 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. \Jl 

a daughter of Jabez Bacon, of Woodbary. He was a merchant, 
and as such an extensive operator. He began in a small way and 
enlarged as he advanced, and as I was told, first occupying a room 
in the chamber of his dwelling as a salesroom. He was remarkably 
successful in his business. His business as a merchant was extensive 
be3'ond that known of any other for many miles radius; and not the 
less so were his operations as an agriculturist. His acres numbered 
1,500. Whatever the soil, he applied what was suitable to the 
peculiarity. Seldom did his land lie idle for lack of application. 
Possessed of a keen discernment, he at once saw as he set, his eye 
upon the spot, what he could put there. The late Judge Phelps, of 
Woodbury, remarked of Mr. Tomlinson that he was the best speci- 
men of a patroon there was in Connecticut. He chartered vessels, 
fitted and put to sea. Once his vessel and cargo were taken by 
French privateers. Such and other losses embarrassed his estate. 
He was eleven times sent to the House of Representatives, and 
when he died, which occurred March, 1822, aged 60 years, he was 
a member of the State Senate. His eldest son, Charles, is living, 
and is over 90 j'ears of age. Samuel Meigs, a member of the Tom- 
linson famil}' by marriage, lived, reared his family, spent his day 
and time, and died, at Quaker Farms. His last days he spent as a 
farmer; earlier he was storekeeper in Mr. Tomlinson's employ. He 
several times represented Oxford in the House, was Judge of the 
County Court, and many years a Justice of the Peace. His two 
sons, David T. and Charles A., are merchants, occupying what was 
the stand of their grandfather. 

The Quaker Farms Episcopal Church must have been erected 
some time between the years 1812 and 1815. It was at first a chapel. 
By and by it was dedicated an Episcopal church and took the name 
of Christ Church. So Quaker Farms became a separate parish. 

What Oxford was a hundred years ago, (1776,) may be per- 
ceived from what is written of Oxford as parishes. Oxford, a 
hundred years ago, townwise, was Derby. Anything of town history 
would not be a history of Oxford, but of Derby, and therefore, at 
the breaking out of the war of Independence, (as it resulted,) what 
part was taken and to what extent by Oxford people, if found on 
record at all, would be found at Derby and as Derby's part in the 
scene enacted. As the people of that age, as may be seen from 
their works that follow, were a sturdy, stout-fisted yeomanry, the 
soil of whom was their wealth, from which they gained their support 



1/2 OXFORD. 

and drew their abundance, and well principled and forward in every 
good word and work, we may believe that love of country prevailed 
with them, and that they were forward in discharge of dut3\ Upon 
my early acquaintance, there were eight revolutionar}^ pensioners, 
Oxford men. How many might have laid down their lives in their 
country's cause does not appear. The names of the pensioners are 
Capt. Samuel Candee, Capt. Job Candee, David Peck, Edward 
Bassett, Isaac Chatfield, Timothy Johnson, Phineas Johnson, and 
Jeremiah M. Kelly. 

Mr. Timothy Johnson related to me an incident that I must 
not omit to mention. The corps of which he was one, was on the 
bank of the Hudson, under Gen. Wayne, and in presence of Wash- 
ington. Wayne besought Washington for a permit to lay siege to 
the British fortress on the bank of the Hudson called Stony Point. 
Wayne was refused permission. He besought a second time. 
Washington said the undertaking was too hazardous, it could not 
be successful, and refused him permission, believing it would be but 
a sacrifice of men. Wayne, nothing daunted, applied a third time 
to the Commander-in-Chief for his permit; told his plan and ex- 
pressed his confidence of success. This he did with earnestness, 
such as told of the will to his purpose. Permission was granted 
him. He was allowed to pick his men. Timothy Johnson, my 
narrator, was one chosen, and, as I think he said, his brother 
Phineas was another. The men chosen, they onward marched to 
the onslaught. Washington reviewed them as they passed^he 
looked very sober, and thought they would all be killed. They 
were marched in to the enemy's picket. They halted. They were 
fast. Wayne came along with a piece of bread and meat in his 
hand, saying, "Blood may run in rivers; any one who desires it 
may leave the ranks and he should not be branded with cowardice." 
But one left. Wayne then went through the line of troops and 
took the flints from every gun, that there should not be a gun fired 
giving light for the enemy's aim. The night was densely dark. All 
made ready and about to commence the march. Wayne said, 
"Death to the man that attempts to leave or falters in duty." 
Onward they marched and soon came upon the enemy's picket. 
The picket hailed. No answer. He fired and ran. Wayne and 
his force ran after him. The fortress was encircled with the limbs 
of the apple trees piled thick and high, the twigs of which were 
sharpened to a point, so that it would seem impossible to get over 



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173 



or break through. But, said Mr. Johnson, "We we so close upon 
the sentinel or picket, that he could not fill the gap made for him; 
we ran through the same and so entered the enclosure." The 
enemy in the meantime kept up a brisk fire, but not a man was hit. 




CHRIST CHURCH, QUAKER FARMS. 

They made up to the walls of the fort, and set about scaling. The 
man first over the wall was killed, the only one lost of the detach- 
ment. The contest was sharp and severe, but short. The British 
soldiery surrendered. Wayne received a severe wound with a cut- 
lass over the eye, a cut in such a manner as to cause the eyelid to 



174 OXFORD. 

fall. "He bled like a butcher," as it was told me. Wayne said 
that he would ev-er be proud of carrying the scar of that wound, 
A noble instance of American valor, and though a hundred years 
ago, we, of the present day, may look back upon such deeds of our 
ancestors, of which there were many, and pride ourselves that we 
were born of Anglo-Saxon blood. With pleasure and with pride 
we behold the braver}' of Oxford's sons in so daring a display. 

In 1861, at the breaking out of the Civil war, Oxford's sons 
proved equal to the emergency. Cheerfully they left their homes 
and with alacrity they proceeded to the scene of the war. No fewer 
than seventyfive men entered the loyal army by enlistment, as I, 
who then kept the record, very well know. Of this number but 
few. probably not more than five, disgraced themselves b}' desertion. 
Mainly they stood manfully at their post and bravely fought the 
battles of their country, and so continued till crowned with victory 
over the enemy. Thanks and more than thanks are due to them. 
They are deserving of our gratitude in the highest degree, for to 
them we owed our safety and our peaceful enjoyment of our com- 
fortable homes. May they ere long, through the liberality of our 
government, be pensioned for life. Long life, with comfort abound- 
ing, be theirs; so may they enjoy much of the fruits of their toil, 
their privation, their suffering, their exposure upon the battle field. 

When I began acquaintance here, fifty years ago, the people 
were more numerous than now. Then they were, with very few, 
if any, exceptions, an orderly, industrious and frugal people; a 
people content with their wages and happy in their circumstances. 
They respected worth, they venerated age. Character was esteem- 
ed, a good name was sought for — a people to be desired for neigh- 
bors and companions. 

In the cause of education they scarcely soared above the popu- 
lar school. In the year 1798, the school society, (which included 
the whole of the town,) was divided into school districts. School 
houses were built and schools supported long before that. Suffice 
it to say, the districts favorably maintained their schools without 
hindrance of course or progress; it being the purpose to educate 
the rising generation to a fair business standing. 

Within the last fifty years, select schools have been kept for 
many a term, through which many were qualified for teaching, 
some of whom reached celebrit^^ Eight of Oxford's sons that I 
know and have heard of, graduated from college. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. I 75 

Though the town was, and ever has been, chiefly agricultural, 
fifty years ago there was mechanical and manufacturing business 
done here. Hats were made here. Mr. Crosby, at the head of the 
shop, told me that at one time he had seventyfive men in his 
employ. There was a shop for the manufacture of edged tools, by 
Mr. Towner. There were also coopers, not less than four shops; 
blacksmiths, tailors, shoemakers, etc., all in and about the central 
part. 

We look over the population now and compare it with that of 
fifty or more years ago. Who were they then and who are they 
now.? Then the Candee names were many; now but two. Caleb, 
the first of the Candee name, emigrated from West Haven. He 
had his house where John Candee's house now stands. There he 
raised nine sons, who were remarkable for longevity, John and 
Sterne Candee are great-grandsons. Lieut. Samuel Wheeler, an 
early settler from Stratford, was prominent as a business operator. 
Robert Wheeler, his great-grandson, occupies in his stead. Of the 
Wheeler name, that of Abel stands forth as prominently as any 
other. The utmost confidence was placed in him, and trust with- 
out limit conferred. He was sent to the House of Representatives 
ten times. As Justice of the Peace he was dispenser of justice; 
Judge of the County Court, and one of the State Senators. He 
died in 1830, aged 65 years. Riggs, a prominent name, once 
numerous, now but one family of that name. Capt. Ebenezer 
Riggs, a valuable citizen in his day, is represented by his grandson 
of the same name. Esq. John Riggs, a public spirited and respect- 
ed citizen, raised a family of ten— five sons and five daughters. He 
built houses and settled his sons in a row with his own dwelling, so 
many that they named the street "Riggs street," — not one of the 
name now left. The name of Davis, of which John Davis was 
eminent in the military line. He reached the position of Colonel, 
commanding the 2d Regiment Connecticut militia. The military 
force of his jurisdiction was essentially improved under his guidance 
and direction. He retained his faculties remarkably till his death, 
which occurred when 95 years of age. Dr. Hosea Dutton, from 
Southington, was an early settler here. He spent his life in the 
practice of his profession, and died September, 1826, aged 72 years. 
He was a man remarkable for application, a useful physician, an 
influential politician, not only at home, but as a writer. Dr. Noah 
Stone, from Guilford, came here about the year 1810. He was a 



176 OXFORD. 

valued practitioner, a man exemplary in life, correct in deportment, 
a fair model for imitation. He died March, 185 1, aged 69 years. 
Rev. A. L. Stone, of San Francisco, and David M. Stone, editor of 
the New York Journal of Commerce, were his sons. Mrs. Hubbell, 
authoress of the "Shady Side," was his daughter. As may be seen 
we come and go and others come. Well is the world compared to 
a stage, and all the men and women to actors. The stage is vacated 
and again supplied by troops of succeeding pilgrims. 



MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE. I77 



Oxford Members of the Le^fislature. 



The representatives of the town of Oxford from the time of its 
incorporation in 1798 have been as follows: 

1799, Thomas Clark, John Riggs. 

1800, Ebenezer Riggs, David Tomlinson. 

1801, Ebenezer Riggs, Isaac Nichols. 

1802, Thomas Clark, Abel Wheeler. 

1803, David Tomlinson, two terms, 

1804, Charles Bunnell, Justus Candee. 

1805, Ebenezer Riggs, two terms. 

1806, Philo Holbrook, two terms. 
1807-8, Abel Wheeler, four terms. 

1809, David Tomlinson, two terms. 

1810, Justus Candee, David Tomlinson. 

181 1, David Tomlinson, two terms. 

1812, Abel Wheeler, David Tomlinson. 

1813, David Tomlinson, Justus Candee. 

1814, David Tomlinson, Timothy Candee. 
181 5, Charles Bunnell, two terms. 

18 16, Jared Hawley, Abiram Stoddard. 

18 1 7, Jared Hawley, two terms. 

1818, Jared Hawley, Abel Wheeler. 
Semi-annual sessions discontinued. 

1819-20-21, Abel Wheeler. 1833, Nathan B. Fairchild. 

1822, Levi Candee. 1834, Samuel Meigs. 

1823, Elias Scott. 1835, Sheldon Clark. 

1824, Joel Perry. 1836, Hiram Osborn. 
1825-6, Sheldon Clark. 1837, Chauncey M. Hatch. 
1827-8, Hiram Osborn. 1838, Aurelius Buckingham. 
1829-30, Samuel Meigs. 1839, Hiram Osborn. 

183 1, Horace Candee. 1840, Sheldon Church. 

1832, Samuel Wire. 1841, David M. Clark. 



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1842, Nathan J. Wilcoxson. i860, 

1843, No choice. 1861, 

George M. Candee had 151 votes, tS6'^ 

Samuel Wire 131, scattering -14. A "' 

plurality did not then elect. 1 863 , 

1844, Sheldon Church. 1864, 

1845, No choice. 1865, 

On the first ballot Joel White had t866 

134 votes. Joseph Connor 119, Sam- ' 

uel Wire 29. scattering 8. On the 1867, 

second ballot White had 139; on ,„ 

the third ballot 145. I800, 

1846, Joel White. 1869- 

1847, Everett Booth. 1871. 

1848, Alfred Harger. 1872, 

1849, -Joel Osborn. 1873- 

1850, Clark Botsford. 1875, 

185 1, Nathaniel Walker. 1876- 

1852, Garry Riggs. 1878, 

1853, Lewis Davis. 1879, 

1854, Lucius Fuller. 1880- 

1855, Ransom Hudson. 1882, 

1856, Hiram Osborn. 1883, 

1857, Josiah Nettleton. 1884, 

1858, Burritt Davis. 1885, 

1859, William H. Clark. 1886, 



James H. Buckingham. 

David R. Lum. 

Benjamin Nichols. 

Robert Wheeler. 

Abiram Ward. 

George Lum. 

Burr J. Davis. 

Charles D. R. Perkins. 

Burr J. Davis. 
70, Egbert L. Warner. 

Burr J. Beecher. 

Robert B. Limburner. 
4, Ebenezer Riggs. 

Smith C. Wheeler. 
7, Gideon A. Johnson. 

Harvey W. Chatfield. 

James H. Bartlett. 
I, John B. Pope. 

James H. Bartlett. 

Orlando C. Osborn. 

Smith C. Wheeler. 

Charles H. Butler. 

Nichols French. 



BIENNIAL SESSIONS. 



1887, Glover W. Cable. 
1889, Orlando C. Osborn. 
1891-3, Charles H. Butler. 
1895, George P. Sanford. 
1897, Sam'I W. Buckingham. 



1899-1901, William O. Davis. 
1903-5, John B. Pope. 
1907. Glover W. Cable. 
1909, Charles B. Johnson. 



STATE SENATORS. 



The State Senators from Oxford who have represented this 
senatorial district in the General Assembly have been as follows: 
David Tomlinson, 1820-1821. 
Benjamin Nichols, 1875-1876. 



FREEMASONRY. 179 



FREEMASONRY IN OXFORD. 



In the palm\' years of Oxford's manufacturing industries, 
Freemasonry flourished here, there being a lodge of Master Masons 
and a chapter of Royal Arch Masons. Morning Star Lodge, No. 47, 
was instituted October 18. 1804, and was continued here until 1848, 
after which it was removed to Seymour. 

Eureka Chapter, No. 22, Royal Arch Masons, was instituted 
here October 12, 1826, with the following members present, most 
of them being members of Morning Star Lodge: 

Samuel Wire, Jonah Nettleton. G. Rawson, 

Chauncey M. Hatch, Ebenezer Fisher, J. Manville, 

David M. Clark, William Jones, S. Steele, 

Merrit Bradley, D. Kimberly, Lewis Candee, 

David McCuen, T. Lee, S. C. Pottaker, 

Harry Smith, L. Smith, G. Smith, 

Lyman Riggs, A. Colt, J. Potter. 

N. Osborne. H. Thomas. 

Convocations were held in Masonic Hall, Oxford, "on the 
second Wednesday previous to the full of the moon, in March, June, 
September and December of each year." The early records of the 
Chapter contain many items of interest, some of which show that 
a great change has taken place since the earlier days in the manner 
of conducting business. Until 1840, convocations were held quite 
regularly, and the Chapter seems to have been fairly prosperous. 
But about this time business in Oxford began to decline and the 
various members removed to other towns. The transfer to 
Woodbury of the Chapter which had been instituted in the town of 
Washington cut of^ an important jurisdiction from Eureka Chapter. 
For these reasons the convocations became less frequent, and at a 
meeting held on the 29th of February, 1844, it was "voted to ad- 
journ until convened by special order of the High Priest." No 



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OXFORD. 



record appears of an^' convocations of the Chapter in Oxford after 
this date. The High Priests of the Chapter during its continuance 
in Oxford were: 

Samuel Wire, 1826, 1827, 183 1. 

Chauncey M. Hatch, 1828. 1838. 

David M. Clark, 1829, 1830, 1839, 1847. 

Henry C. Atvvood, 1832, 1833. 

John M. Hunt, 1034, 1837. 
In 1844 the Chapter "voted to adjourn until convened b}' special 
order of the High Priest," and in 1847 was removed to Waterbury. 
The following list of members is of value as showing some whose 
names do not elsewhere appear, who were sojourners in this vicinity 
during the years that the Chapter flourished. 



Henry C. Atwood, 

Washington H. Atwood, 

John Barry, 
--Ezra L. Bassett, 

Merrit Bradley, 

Treat Bradley, 

Shelden Bristol, 

Beach Brothwell, 

Moody M. Brown, 

Henry Burton, 

Thomas Buxton, 

Cyrenus Candee, 

Lewis Candee, 

Lewis R. Churchill, 

David M. Clark, 

Smith Clark, 
A. Colt, 

William T. Colt, 
Seth Crosby, 
Rev. William A. Curtiss, 
Thomas A. Dutton, 
George Finch, 
Ebenezer Fisher, 
George Giddings, 
George Gunn, 
Alfred Harger, 
Chauncey M. Hatch, 



George D. Hine, 
Harr^' Hine, 
William Hinman, 
Gad Hitchcock, 
John M. Hunt, 
William H. Hunter, 
Martin Jackson, 
William Jones, 
Jesse Joy, 
D. Kimberlev, 
George T. Leach, 
T. Lee, 
John Lum, 

^"William Lum, 

"William Lum, Jr. 
John C. Lusk. 
J. Manville, 
David McCuen, 

-Mitchell S. Mitchell. 
Martin Moody, 
Jonah Nettleton, 
Enos Osborn. 
Harvey Osborn, 
N. Osborn, 

Charles Peck, 
S. C. Potaker, 

J. Potter, 



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Charles Kansom, 
^— Lyman RigRS, 
Harry Smith, 
John Smith, 
Willis Smith, 
John Snyder, 
R. C. Steele, 
S. Steele. 
Noah Stone, 



H. Thomas, 

Julius S. Tolls, 
—Abel Wheeler, 
— Moses Wheeler, 

Nathan J. Wilcoxson, 

Sydney R. Wildman, 
~" Clark Wooster, 
^Joseph D. Wooster. 




THE GRIFFIN HOUSE, ON FIVE MILE HILL. 
bUILT BY SILAS SPERKY. 



THE (zRIFFIN FAMILY. 

This family appears to ha\e been quite prominent in the early 
history of Oxford. Jonathan Griffin's house was desitjnated in 1741 
as one of the places for postin^i notices of the Congregational society 



1 82 OXFORD. 

jneetings. The society was incorporated in that year, by act of the 
General Assembljs but some time elapsed before the new church 
was fully or<janized and it was not until 1745 that he was "received 
to communion from ye Pastor and Ch'i of Christ in Ripton, hairing 
Date Oct. 27th, 1745." Mehitable Griffin, wife of Jonathan, was 
received from the church in West Haven under date of Jan. 22, 
1746. He is mentioned in the record of a town meeting held in 
March, 1733, as "one of the Quaker Farms men." He died June 2, 
1773. aged 82 years, and his wife died Nov. 5, 1789. One Mehitable 
Griffin died in Oxford Oct. 23, 1794, aged 104 years. A second 

Jonathan Griffin, probably son of the above, married Lydia 

and had two children, John and Mehitable, the latter born July 6, 
1798. 

Samuel Grii^n was granted land in April, 1675. provided he 
settle and "set up ye trade of a smith and do ye town's work," and 
it is recorded that "Samuel Griffin, blacksmith, settled near John 
Hull's mill at Northend in 1682, and John Griffin in 1685." It is 
quite likely that the mill mentioned was a corn mill, as under date of 
Nov. 20, 1708, a boundary is recorded as "on the easterly side of 
the highway that goeth from Ebenezer Harger's to the present 
corn mill." 

At a Derby town meeting held Feb. 9, 1680, a lot was granted 
to John Griffin, "with other convenient lands belonging to it as 
they grant to other young men, provided he settle upon the place 
and build and fence and attend ye town order made April 16, 1675." 

Lieut. John Griffin lived opposite the old Quaker Farms ceme- 
tery. He fought under Gen. Wolf at Quebec and when off duty 
during the winter returned to his home and was a successful deer 
hunter. 

Charles Griffin was a resident of Oxford as early as 1754, as he 
"owned his covenant" in the Congregational church Feb. 17th of 
that year, and three of his children, Catharine, John, (born Dec. 30, 
1753, ) and Huldah, were baptized by Rev. Mr. Lyman, the latter 

two on II, 1756. From the Derby records it appears that 

he married Catharine Wisebury Dec. 4, 175 1. The daughter 
Catharine married Abner Wolcott Jan. 8, 1772. One Hulda Griffin 
married Isaac Clark May 27, 1801. 

Lieut. John Griffin of Oxford is mentioned under date of April 
6, 1777, when his wife Dinah, from N. Cheshire, was admitted to 
church fellowship. In the Colonial Records, vol. xv., p. 341, is a 



THE GRIFFIN FAMILY. 1 83 

record of the appointment of John Griffin as Lieutenant of the 12th 
Company in the 3d Regiment, and in the "Record of Connecticut 
Men in the War of the Revolution," p. 631, he is mentioned as in 
Lieut. Col. Stors' Regiment at New York in the fall of '76. He 
was born at Quaker Farms in 1725 and was the first white person 
born in the town of Oxford. He died in February, 1819, aged 94 
years. 

John Griffin had land and a home on Good Hill in 1752, as in 
that year a highway, (three rods wide, ) was laid out through his 
land, "crossing the brook below the dam and running round the 
south end of the pond," as appears from the records of the Quaker 
Farms Purchase, from which it is probable he had a mill there. 

Elisha Griffin and Mary his wife lived for some years at the 
foot of Pisgah hill, but later moved to what was known as the 
Stoddard place on Hull's Hill. He is recorded as having taken the 
freeman's oath in Derby, April 13, 1778. He died in 1814, aged 82, 
His wife died Mar. 13, 1805. They had seven children: 

David, d. June 26, 1777, aged 9 y. 

Peleg. 

Mary, bap. Sept. 14, 1777; m. Lemuel Lake of Newtown Mar. 
22, 1812. 

Ozias, d. Mar. 23, 1796. 

John, lived near New Milford, has a son who was a missionary 
in Oregon. 

Zalmon, m. Betsy Lewis Mar 28. 1804. He lived on the east 
side of the Housatonic river, about half a mile south of Bennett's 
bridge. 

Jonathan, settled in Vermont. 

Peleg Griffin, son of Elisha and Mary, lived on Hull's Hill. He 
m. ist, Sally Mitchell, by whom he had two children. She died 
Dec. 30, 1803. 2d, Margaret Botsford. His children were: 

Sophia, m. Fred Whitmore. 

Charles, a sailor, d. unmarried. 

Harvey, m. Maria Bristol, d. in Derby, in 1878. 

William, b. Feb. 7, 1814. 

Isaac, m. in New York state. 

Caroline, m. Sherman Lewis of Stratford. 

Several of the family were buried in an old burying ground 70 
or 80 rods south of the house, on the road that leads to the river. 
Only one tombstone there; the Beardsley tombstone was taken 



l84 OXFORD. 

away. Sophia was taken to Newtown when her mother died and 
brought up there and married Fred Whitmore of Newtown. Peleg 
Griffin died at Newtown, at the house of his daughter, Sophia, and 
was buried in Newtow^n. His second wife died May 22, 1841. 

Zalmon Griffin, brother of Peleg, Hved on the bank of the 
Housatonic, two and a half miles below Zoar bridge. He died in 
1836. 

William Griffin, son of Peleg and Margaret, and Laura Sperry, 
daughter of Silas and Lucinda (Chatfield) Sperry, were married in 
Humphreysville Dec. 30, 1839, by Rev. John D. Smith. They lived 
in the stone house on Five Mile Hill, shown on another page, built 
by Silas Sperry. She died in Oxford Mar. 3, 1905. aged 88. Their 
daughter, Betsy Maria, died June 25, i860, aged 16 y, 10 m, 15 d. 

Mabel Griffin of Oxford and Lewis Stanchcliff of South Britain 
m. Nov. 30, 1784. 

Nancy P. Griffin and Benjamin F. Lines were married in Sey- 
mour Mar. 30, 1856. 

Thomas Griffin died in Seymour Dec. 20, 1875, aged 80. One 
record says Jan. 10. 1876. 



OXFORD PROBATE COURT. 

Oxford was incorporated as a Probate District June 4, 1846, 
and the legislature appointed Nathan J. Wilcoxson as Judge. Dr. 
Noah Stone was in like manner appointed and served two years, 
and afterwards Judge Wilcoxson was judge from Jan., 1850 to 1866, 
when his term expired by limitation of age. He was succeeded by 
Joel Osborn who served one year, resigning on account of ill health. 
Nathaniel Walker followed and served for seven years. 

Dr. Lewis Barnes was the next elected, and he continued for 
a period of twent3'three years, from 1872 until 1895, until he reached 
the age which is the statutory limitation for the performance of the 
duties of the office. Walter H. Perry was then elected. His term 
of two years expired Jan. 6th, 1897, when he was succeeded by 
George W. Hoxie. who continued in that office twelve years. John 
B. Sanford, the present Judge of Probate, was elected Nov. 3, 1908, 
and entered upon the duties of the office Jan. 6, 1909. 




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BIOGRAPHY. 185 



ROBERT BRUCE LIMBURNER. 



Oxford has been the home of many men who have exempHfied 
the sterling quaHties of energy, enterprise, integrity, patriotism, 
and all the christian virtues that have made New England famous 
among the best in christian lands, and from whence have gone out 
so many to be leaders in all that is best in other commonwealths 
and communities, and among those whom a younger generation 
has delighted to honor, none stands higher than Robert Bruce 
Limburner, who was born in Oxford March 20, 182 1, of a Scotch 
paternal ancestry. His father, John Limburner, (originally Lime- 
burner,) was a son of James Limburner, of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, 
Scotland, the native place of the poet Burns, and was born in 1777. 
When he was r8 years old, in 1795, he came to America, living first 
in New York, but later settled in New Haven, where he followed 
his trade as a cooper, which occupation brought him to Oxford 
about 1797. He carried on this business until 1829, when he re- 
moved to Derby, and fiom that place, in 1846, to Washington, 
Conn., where he died in i860. He was a very energetic mechanic 
and a man of the highest principles. He married Fanny, a daughter 
of Henry Martin, of Woodbridge. who died in Oxford Oct. 14, 1830, 
aged fifty years. They had nine children, one of whom died in 
youth, the others attaining mature years, as follows: 

Janette, born July 5. 1803, died July 18, 1812. 

Mary, born May 8, 1806, married John Wooster, of Oxford. 

Jane, born May 12, 1808, residence Oxford. 

John, born March 20. 1810, removed to Ohio. 

Lydia, born Feb. 18, 18 12, married Miles Nichols, of Waterbury. 

James Wallace, born Feb. 9, 1814, residence South Norwalk. 

Janette, born Sept. 17, 1816, married Henry Wooding of 
Cheshire. 

Harriet, born Oct. 29, 1818, married Alonzo Rabe, of Waterbury. 

Robert Bruce, born March 20, 182 1. 



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When Robert was nine years old his mother died, leaving him 
in the care of a married sister, Mrs. John Wooster, with whom he 
lived on the farm until he was i6 years of age, attending the district 
school. He was then apprenticed to learn the trade of a blacksmith, 
at Washington, in Litchfield county, and after serving four years, 
followed that occupation as a journeyman. He was employed as a 
machinist in the works of Herman Baldwin, of Washington, where 
he remained seven years. The next four years he carried on a 
foundry and machine shop in his own name, but later, for a number 
of years, was the proprietor of a wood turning establishment, which 
had a large output. In 1863 he removed from Washington to 
Southford, where he engaged in a new line of manufacture, making 
straw paper boards of all kinds, in which he was very successful. 
At the end of the seven years he sold his interest to White & Wells, 
of Waterbury, who built the new mill there. He then retired from 
mechanical pursuits, making his home in Oxford, at Red City, and 
giving much of his time to the public affairs of his native town. 

He was called upon to serve his native town in various capaci- 
ties, and was alike efficient in his services in behalf of the town and 
of the Congregational church, of which he was one of the main- 
stays, serving as deacon, as treasurer, and as Sundayschool super- 
intendent. 

While living in Washington in i860 he had been elected to 
represent that town in the legislature, and in 1872 represented 
Oxford in the same body, being the first republican elected in 
twentyone years. He cast his first vote for President for Henry 
Clay, and had belonged to the republican party from its first organi- 
zation, yet he held the fullest confidence of his fellow citizens 
without regard to party. 

He was married in 1845 to Emeline Williams, of Washington, 
Conn., who died in 1852, leaving a daughter, Josephine E., born in 
1846, who became the wife of Samuel Buckingham, of Oxford, and 
had one son, Robert, dying in 1876. On March 18, 1874, Mr. Lim- 
burner married Ellen M., daughter of Ebenezer and Betsey (Sperry) 
Buckingham, of Oxford. Her father was a descendant of Thomas 
Buckingham, who was one of the first New Haven planters in 1637, 
coming there with the first colonists. 



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DAVID J. McEWEN. 



Another of Oxford's representative men was David J. McEwen, 
also of honored Scotch parentage. His ancestor, Robert McEwen, 
of Stratford, Conn., the first of his line to settle in this countr}', 
was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1612. He was obliged to leave 
Scotland because of his refusal to acknowledge the supremacy of 
the king, for which refusal he was prosecuted, fined, imprisoned, 
and his property confiscated. He, with abbut one hundred others, 
was banished from the country and sent to Virginia. They sailed 
from Perth. Scotland, in September, 1685. After being at sea some 
days, they were overtaken by a heavy eastern gale which lasted 
fourteen days. When the gale had abated they found them.selves 
near the New York harbor. The ship was then in a sinking con- 
dition, and in order to save their lives they ran the ship ashore at a 
place called Amboy, New Jersey, Dec. 18, 1685. There they formed 



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a settlement which they called Perth Amboy, after the place from 
which they had sailed. Mr. McEwen was a tailor by trade. In 
Feb., 1686, he removed to Stratford, Conn. He married Sarah, 
daughter of Timothy and Joannah ( Birdsey) Wilcoxson, of Strat- 
ford, June 20, 1695. He died Feb. 24, 1739-40. 

David McEwen, great-grandson of Robert and Sarah McEwen, 
settled in Oxford and filled a number of offices of responsibility and 
trust in the gift of his townsmen, and was master of Morning Star 
Lodge, F. & A. M., for four yegirs. He died March 11, 1842. 

David J. McEwen, son of David McEwen, lived on the plateau 
at the summit of the high hill between Oxford Center and Quaker 
Farms, where from 1846 to i860 he kept a boarding school, and 
many are those who in after years remembered with gratitude the 
kindly instruction and New England training received there. 
Politically he was a republican, as a christian his preference was 
for the Methodist church, and as a citizen he was the soul of 
integrity and principle, and his judgment in affairs of the community 
was honored by his fellow citizens. He was married March 16, 
1829, to Frances Jane Wooster, of Litchfield. They had four sons 
and three daughters, Louise, Jane, Virgil H., who was for many 
years a resident of Seymour and represented that town in the Gen- 
eral Assembly; D wight, a jeweller, who located in a Southern state; 
Wooster B., who served his country in the war of 186 1- 1865; Emily, 
and Wilbur, a merchant in New Haven. 



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